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I used to have a lot of line noise problems with my 1200 baud modem.
What was sudgested to me was to put a toriod transformer on the line.
This is easily done by getting a large toroid core from your local
electronics shop, a toroid core is a ceramic/metal "donut", and wind the
telephone line in through the center of the core and out around the
ouTside five or six times. This is a easy and cheap fix that does not
have the hassels of having to use sofware to fix a hardware problem.
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The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Catherine Laboure, a nun of the
sisters of Charity on July 18, 1830 at Rue du Bac, Paris.
Sister Catherine was awakened late that night by a small boy, age 5
or 6, who was literally glowing with some sort of interior light.
The child led her to the sanctuary of the chapel where he promised
the Virgin Mary was to be found awaiting her. Our Lady appeared to
her and instructed her for two hours or more on matters pertaining
to her life and to the future of France and the world.
On November 27 Our Lady appeared again to Catherine. She instructed
her to have a medal struck. She told her that those who wore this
medal would enjoy special protection from the Mother of God and would
receive great graces. In less than a year there were three more
apparitions. In June of 1831 the medals were a reality. Many reports
were received by those who wore it. Within two years of its issuing
the medal was known as the "Miraculous Medal". Catherine died in 1876.
Her body to this day is remarkably preserved (incorrupt). She was
canonized on July 27, 1947. Her body lies in the chapel at the
motherhouse on the Rue du Bac where she had her first meeting with
Our Lady.
The apparition on November 27 1830 was of average height and clothed
in white with a veil that flowed over the head and fell to the floor.
Above the altar, a pyramid painted to represent God's all knowing
wisdom looked down on them. Our Lady's feet rested on a white globe
and there was also a green serpent with yellow spots that she was
stepping on. In her hands was a golden ball that represented the world.
Great streams of light issued from her hands and she also showed
Catherine an image of two hearts, the Sacred Heart wrapped in
piercing thorns and her own heart punctured by a sword. The sword
represented her suffering with Jesus.
The apparitions announced the onset of the great battle and forewarned
that a dark era lay in the immediate future. It was the apparition
leading up to the recent ones. Our Lady began to dispense secrets.
And with the globe she revealed herself in worldwide dispute
with the forces of the dark. She told Catherine "The times are
evil. Misfortunes will fall upon France. The throne will be
overturned. The entire world will be overcome by evils of all
kinds."
Refer to books on St. Catherine for more of Our Lady's messages.
A copy of the medal is also available in Catholic bookstores.
I will post other Marian events every few days or so including
the ones happening today which are still under investigation.
These postings serve only to introduce you to these events.
Please look more into them and understand the reason for
the increasing number and urgency of these apparitions.
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Hello again, another question. :)
I just got my hands on 2 quarts of ReadLine Gear Oil (at $7 a quart)
now I need to know how to throw it into my car.
I own an 89 NIssan Maxima Se, any Ideas?
Can I mix the Oil in there with this stuff, or should I drain first, then
only use this stuff.
If you know where (if there is one) the drain plug on the manual transmission
on the Maxima is, I would really appreciate any comments.
Also have any of you Maxima owners, thied this stuff in your cars?
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From the June newsletter of the Latin Liturgy Association:
There is a new e-mail discussion group: LATIN-L, a forum for people
interested in classical Latin, medieval Latin, Neo-Latin; the languages of
choice are Latin (of course) and whatever vulgar languages you feel
comfortable using. Please be prepared to translate on request. The field
is open -- name your topic! In order to subscribe, BITNET users should
send an interactive message of the form "TELL LISTSERV@PSUVM SUB LATIN-L
[your name]". INTERNET users should send a message (without a subject
line) to the address LISTSERV@PSUVM.PSU.EDU. The message should read "SUB
LATIN-L [your name]". Once subscribed, one may participate by sending
messages to LATIN-L@PSUVM or LATIN-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU.
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First, you seem to assume all atheists think alike. An atheist does not
believe in the existence of a god. Our opinions on issues such as
capital punishment and abortion, however, vary greatly.
If you were attacking the views of a particular atheist (Benedikt, I
presume), then please present your argument as such and do not lump us
all together.
As for the issues, let's start with abortion. Personally, I do not support
abortion as a means of population control or contraception-after-the-fact.
However, I support the right of any woman to have an abortion, regardless
of what my personal views may be, because it would be arrogant of me to tell
any individual what he/she may or may not do to his/her body, and the domain
of legislators should not extend into the uterus. That's my opinion, and I
am sure many atheists and theists would disagree with me.
I do not defend homosexuality as a means of population control, but I
certainly defend it as an end to itself. I think most homosexuals would
be angered to hear of anyone characterizing their personal relationship as
nothing more than a conscious effort to keep population levels down.
As for atheists believing all values are biological, I have no idea what
you're talking about.
Finally, there are the issues of war and capital punishment. An atheist
can object to either one just as easily as a theist might. You seem to
be hung up on some supposed conspiratorial link between atheism and
population control. Could this be the "atheist cause" you were referring
to a few posts back?
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Lotus Organizer!!! Quick, cheap, pretty! And has all of those features
you want ...
You might look at one of the shell alternatives provided by third
parties. Norton Desktop for Windows, for instance.
Personally, I *like* File Manager, which comes with Windows. It's much
faster than NDW's, and the File Manager that's part of Windows for
Workgroups even has a decent button bar.
That first you can do with File Manager, but the others you'll need
to look at NDW or PC Tools for Windows, etc.
I haven't yet seen a decent freeware or even shareware shell. But
it may be just me.
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You should have been following the discussion of GRBs
going on in sci.astro. It's been discussed in some detail,
with references even.
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We are searching for one or two instructors for tutorials on advanced
Windows programming under NT. If anyone has attended a course that was
very good, we would really appreciate recommendations.
Please email me directly at paller@fedunix.org; I don't get to see these
newsgroups often enough.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Those of us who questioned the mass suicide line may still have
wondered, "If it wasn't suicide, why did so few get out?" The
answer is now available - the gas the government had been pouring
in on them is so disabling that its use in wartime is banned by the
chemical weapons treaty.
The U.S. had agreed not to use this gas against enemy soldiers in
wartime, but used it in peacetime against civilians, including
nnocent children.
For confirmation see Friday's CLINTON:AM press briefing by George
Stephanopoulous, posted in alt.news-media and other locations.
(When questioned about it, his reply was that the treaty did
not forbid its internal use by law enforcement agencies.
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This posting from Stephen F. Austin State University's ANONYMOUS account.
Please report abuses to newsmgr@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
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Eve'.
I am looking to buy 4 new p195-50r15 tires.. (R or HR). I don't
have much to spend, but I would like a tire that will LAST. Does
anyone have any experience with the following brands?
Riken
Falken
BFG
General
There are others, but these I can find here for under $70.. Like
I said, I am mostly interested in threadwear then speed, since I
hardly get to drive them over 80 or 90 mph. Also, is it true that
"noone will give you warranty on such tires", according to
a tire dealer?
Finally, do HR tires last longer than R tires (threadwear again),
or is that strictly a speed factor?
Thanks for any replies..
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My 66 DX2 is about a week old and is custom built by me and for me.
I am using the PC Power and Cooling CPU Cooler. This one has
precision ball bearings in the motor. It has a pretty substantial
heat sink; so if it happened to fail it would still probably
dissipate more heat than the bare chip.
It attaches with peel off adhesive. This is a full size AT case, so
the fan has gravity in its favor. I would be a little nervous about
finding the fan at the bottom of a tower case if it happened to let
go.
All of the CPU fans that I know of are powered from a drive cable.
There are other "board" type fans which are ISA boards with a couple
of fans mounted on them. They are powered by the slot. I don't
know how effective they are; maybe someone else could comment.
The cpu is cool enough to touch with the PCP&C unit.
PC-Connection at 800-243-8088 has them for 29.95 + 5.00 next day
delivery. The Y cord is 7.00 if you don't have a spare lead off the
power supply. PCP&C make the best power supplies available IMHO.
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Aaron> Colossians 2:11-12 "In him you were also circumcised, in the
Aaron> putting off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done
Aaron> by Christ, having been buried with him in baptism and raised
Aaron> with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him
Aaron> from the dead."
Aaron> In baptism, we are raised to a new life in Christ (Romans 6:4)
Aaron> through a personal faith in the power of God. Our parent's
Aaron> faith cannot do this. Do infants have faith? Let's look at
Aaron> what the Bible has to say about it.
Yes, let do. Try:
"And if anyone causes one of these little ones *who believes in me*
to sin, it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea
with a large millstone tied around his neck." Mark 9:42
"Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them,
for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you
the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God
like a little child will never enter it."
The Colossians passage does not make faith a requirement
for baptism. It merely says that in baptism we are born again,
regenerated, and resurrected through faith. In the case
of an infant I would say that baptism works faith in the
heart of the infant--through the power of the word.
The Colossians passage does make baptism a spiritual circumcision.
Circumcision was the means by which a male infant was made
a part of God's covenant with Israel. It was commanded to be
performed on the eighth day. The early church understood this,
and even debated whether baptism had to be performed on the
eighth day, or if it could in fact be done earlier.
Aaron> Romans 10:16-17 "But not all the Israelites accepted the good
Aaron> news. For Isaiah says, 'Lord, who has believed our message?'
Aaron> Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the
Aaron> message is heard through the word of Christ."
Aaron> So then we receive God's gift of faith to us as we hear the
Aaron> message of the gospel.
And the gospel is surely preached at any infant's (or adult's)
baptism. Indeed, in a very real sense, the sacraments are
the Gospel made tangible.
Aaron> Faith is a possible response to hearing
Aaron> God's word preached. Kids are not yet spiritually,
Aaron> intellectually, or emotionally mature enough to respond to
Aaron> God's word.
How do you know they are not yet mature enough to have faith?
Do you know this on the basis of God's Word, or from your own
reason?
Faith is also described as a gift from God, Ephesians 2:8,9.
He gives faith to infants just as he gives it to adults, through
the power of the gospel, Romans 1:6.
Aaron> If you read all of Ezekiel 18, you will see that God doesn't
Aaron> hold us guilty for anyone else's sins. So we can have no
Aaron> original guilt from Adam.
Here you show that you just don't understand original sin--
you are arguing against a straw man.
Maybe you've been talking to Catholics too much. I don't
know. But original sin does not consist of God's imputation
of Adam's guilt to us. It consists of our inheritance of
Adam's sinful nature. It is actual sin. See for example,
the Augsburg Confession, Article II, and the Apology of the
Augsburg Confession, Article II, and, for extra credit,
John Knox's `The Scots confession', Article III.
Aaron> Now then that we have a little more background as to why
Aaron> original sin is not Biblical, let's look at some of the
Aaron> scriptures used to support it.
Aaron> Romans 5:12 "Therefore, just as sin entered the world through
Aaron> one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to
Aaron> all men, because all sinned--"
Ask yourself this question. "Do infants ever die?" Then ask
yourself, "If infant baptism is not valid, then where was the
Christian Church during all the centuries when almost all
of the baptisms were performed on infants? Were Luther, Melancthon,
Calvin, Zwingli, Hus, Knox, Andrae, and Chemnitz Christians?
Aaron> Psalm 51:5 "Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time
Aaron> my mother conceived me."
Aaron> This whole Psalm is a wonderful example of how we should humble
Aaron> ourselves before God in repentance for sinning. David himself
Aaron> was a man after God's own heart and wrote the Psalm after
Aaron> committing adultry with Bathsheba and murdering her husband.
Aaron> All that David is saying here is that he can't remember a time
Aaron> when he wasn't sinful. He is humbling himself before God by
Aaron> confessing his sinfulness. His saying that he was sinful at
Aaron> birth is a hyperbole. The Bible, being inspired by God, isn't
Aaron> limited to a literal interpetation, but also uses figures of
Aaron> speech as did Jesus (John 16:25). For another example of
Aaron> hyperbole, see Luke 14:26.
Who are you to say what is literal and what is not? Is a literal
interpretation manifestly absurd in Psalm 51 by reason of direct
contradiction with a clear passage from the Word of God?
You might also compare Genesis 8:21, "The LORD smelled the
pleasing aroma and said in his heart, `Never again will I curse
the ground because of man, even though every inclination of
his heart is evil from childhood...."
Aaron> We see
Aaron> that he did grow and become wiser in Luke 2:40 and 2:52. The
Aaron> implication is that Jesus did wrong things as a child before he
Aaron> knew to choose right over wrong.
You are a long way from proving this (rather monstrous) assertion.
All you can say is that Jesus grew in wisdom and in stature. A
conclusion that he did wrong as a child is based on an extrapolation
of reason, not on a direct revelation in Scripture.
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Organization: Compact Solutions, Canberra ACT Australia
Has anybody every come across a problem whereby a hard disk locks up (ie. crashes the system) when attempting to load disk caching?
I think the logic board may have been buggered, but the drive works PERFECTLY without a disk cache.
I tried HyperDisk and various versions of SmartDRIVE, all to no avail.
Any advice would be MUCH appreciated .. I need a cached drive, but I need the extra space of my second drive just as much! :-)
Thanks.
Cheers, Ben
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Also: ellib@cbr.cpsg.com.au
UUCP: ..!uunet!munnari!sserve.adfa.oz.au!compsol!root
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Rust Staub is NOT Jewish.
In fact, I think his father was a minister.
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You're just beginning to scratch the surface. Do you know how much
military equipment costs? When was the last time you tried to buy a
mil-spec hammer, coffee-pot or toilet seat?
Paying Israel to do the dirty work on it's own without putting
American soldiers's lives on the line is much, much, much cheaper than
Uncle Sam's arrangements with much of the rest of the world.
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[Deleted for space; basically complaints that xv is an 8 bit program and that
making several modifications to the RGB sliders is slow because of screen updates.]
In reverse order:
1) Try clicking in the auto-apply box to switch it off. Then make your mods. Then
click on apply. There is no problem as stated; it has already been solved if you
look carefully.
2) Yes XV is an 8 bit program. This is not a bug. You can edit individual pallette
entries or do global colour changes; crop, scale etc. Clearly the program must
save out the *altered* image else all your work would be thrown away. So yes it
saves out 8 bit images - of course!
XV can import 24 bit images and quantises them down to 8 bits. This is a handy
facility, not a bug.
How would you suggest doing colour editing on a 24 bit file? How would you group
'related' colours to edit them together? Only global changes could be done
unless the software were very different and much more complicated.
If you want to do colour editing on a 24 bit image, you need much more powerfull
software - which is readily available commercially.
And lastly, JPEG is a compression algorithm. It can be applied to any image of
arbitrary bit depth. Again, this is not a bug. It is a way of saving disk space
;-)
Later,
--
Chris Lilley
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Manchester, UK. M13 9PL Internet: C.C.Lilley@mcc.ac.uk
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That's the whole point, David. As spirits separated from their bodies
and living in the spirit world, they cannot undergo the ordinance of
marriage, just as they cannot be baptized, since there is no physical
body to be baptized. We perform these ordinances as proxies for them,
in their behalf. Thanks for asking. Brooks
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* Brooks Haderlie (brh54@cas.org) * " O be wise; what can I say more?"
* * Columbus, OH by way of Ucon, ID * - Jacob 6:12 * *
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I'm looking for code that will generate a minimum-volume oriented
bounding box for an arbitrary polyhedron. Anyone know of such code?
Why? I'm converting objects from
one modelling system into another, and the destination system is object
oriented. So I want to represent each object in its own coordinate system,
that of its bounding box, with the objects then translated and rotated
appropriately, this being the representation used in the destination
system.
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No, the Yanks are. We are are midway through our insipid invasion of
Florida and they aren't even aware of it yet.
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Jorg Klinger | GSXR1100 | If you only new who
Arch. & Eng. Services |"Lost Horizons" CR500 | I think I am.
UManitoba, Man. Ca. |"The Embalmer" IT175 | - anonymous
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I'm looking for information regarding dosages of prozac used in minor
depression. Also any other information regarding the drug is helpful.
Please send responses direct. Thanks!
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For your first set of questions (regarding the energy and will of Christ)
I quote to you the relevant part of the Statement signed by both Eastern
(Chalcedonian) and Oriental (non-Chalcedonian) Orthodox scholars a few
years ago (Both families = both Orthodox churches) :
1. Both families agreed in condemning the Eutychian heresy. Both families
confess that the Logos, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, only begotten
of the Father before the ages and consubstantial with Him, was incarnate and
was born from the Virgin Mary Theotokos; fully consubstantial with us, perfect
man with soul, body and mind ($ \nu o \upsilon \zeta $); He was crucified,
died, was buried and rose from the dead on the third day, ascended to the
Heavenly Father, where He sits on the right hand of the Father as Lord of all
creation. At Pentecost, by the coming of the Holy Spirit He manifested the
Church as His Body. We look forward to His coming again in the fullness of His
glory, according to the Scriptures.
2. Both families condemn the Nestorian heresy and the crypto-Nestorianism of
Theodoret of Cyrus. They agree that it is not sufficient merely to say that
Christ is consubstantial both with His Father and with us, by nature God and
by nature man; it is necessary to affirm also that the Logos, Who is by nature
God, became by nature man, by His incarnation in the fullness of time.
3. Both families agree that the Hypostasis of the Logos became composite by
uniting to His divine uncreated nature with its natural will and energy, which
He has in common with the Father and the Holy Spirit, created human nature,
which He assumed at the Incarnation and made His own, with its natural will
and energy.
4. Both families agree that the natures with their proper energies and wills
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are united hypostatically and naturally without confusion, without change,
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without division and without separation, and that they are distinguished in
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thought alone.
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5. Both families agree that He who wills and acts is always the one Hypostasis
of the Logos Incarnate.
[...]
I guess that adresses your question adequately.
As for your second set of questions, I am afraid they are irrelevant to the
discussion (at least from my point of view) of Monophysitism. I do not see
how they relate to the topic we are discussing (other than to start an
endless Orthodox-RC debate which I do not plan to engage into). As a brief
answer to your questions, the position of the Coptic Orthodox Church
regarding the Roman pontiff, his jurisdiction, his infalability, etc.
is exactly the same as all the other Orthodox churches.
Peace,
Nabil
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Joachim
I have restrained from involvement in flame wars. These comments however make
me long for the days when I was a flame warrior. I would hope that you would
refrain from such idiotic slander.
Winslow (formerly of Madison)
P.S. I might have to drop the formerly and become the "old" Winslow of Madison.
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[ some real stupid remarks ]
...
...
[ lots of serious dribble for no real reason ]
...
Hey, I don't really care, but when someone sends me
email telling me to fuck off, I get rather pissed. If he posted
to the net, I could really care less, but sending mail
is just childish. Mr. Infant(e) is just that, an infant. Give
him a few more years to grow up and maybe he'll learn some
network etiquette.
If you can't stand the flames,
and you don't have the brains,
Stay out of the newsgroup.
Kind of catchy n'est pas?
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I have two (2) bus tickets for sale from Bethlehem PA (Lehigh University) to
Philadelphia PA.
Tickets good until August 24, 1993.
$15 for both OBO.
Please email at tsai@eniac.seas.upenn.edu or call (215)573-6252.
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Hello,
I am moving to Houston to go to Rice University for graduate school.
I will be living on the corner of S. Mian and University Blvd. I was
wondering what kind of liability rates to expect. Here is the relevent
info.
Sex: Male
Age: 23
Status: Single
Commute: None, walking.
Car: 1982 Ford Crown Victoria, 4 door
If anyone can check the above info, or is in a similar situation please
E-MAIL me the rates they find out or pay. Thanks for your help in advance.
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Sigh. You're absolutely right. We have no political power whatsoever.
Therefore, we should be oppressed and ignored and denigrated, right? I
certainly hope you don't have an SO, sir, because if she heard how
disparaging you are towards political minorities, and if she had any shred
of self-respect, she'd be out the door.
Don't count on it, sweetheart.
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Certainly not. Most major universities wouldn't touch views that display
the brainpower and the perspective of a mayfly with a ten-foot pole.
Drewcifer
P.S. Incidentally, I think even mayflies could come up with more
enlightenment than the above bullshit. Evolve a bit, will you?
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I don't think Joe was saying any such thing. However, your question
on "asking Jesus to come into your heart" seems to imply that infants
are not allowed to have Christ in theirs. Why must Baptism always be
viewed by some people as a sort of "prodigal son" type of thing; i.e. a
sudden change of heart, going from not accepting Christ to suddenly
accepting Christ? Why can't people start out with Christ from shortly
after birth, and build their relationship from there? After all, does
a man suddenly meet a woman, and then marry her that same day? From my
experiences, I've learned that all relationships must be built,
including one's relationship with God.
Also Joe is speaking from the standpoint that Baptism is not just a
ritual, but that through it God bestows sacramental grace upon the
recipient. Certainly for those with the mental faculties to know Christ
it is necessary to believe in Him. However, the Sacrament itself
bestows grace on the recipient, and makes a permanent mark of adoption
into God's family on the soul.
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Archive-name: graphics/faq
This message is automatically posted once a week or so in an effort to
cut down on the repetitive junk in comp.graphics. It was last changed
on 26Apr93. If you have answers to other frequently asked questions that
you would like included in this posting, please send me mail. If you
don't want to see this posting every week, please add the subject line
to your kill file. Thank you.
If your copy of the FAQ is more than a couple of weeks old, you may want to
seek out the most recent version. The latest version of this FAQ is always
available on the archive site pit-manager.mit.edu (alias rtfm.mit.edu) as
pub/usenet/news.answers/graphics/faq.
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Last update: 26Apr93
Sorry I haven't posted this for a couple of weeks, but I was called out of
town due to a death in the family. This is reality, folks.
What's new?
SIGGRAPH Online Bibliography Project (spencer@cgrg.ohio-state.edu).
grieggs@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
Contents:
1) General references for graphics questions.
2) Drawing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional screen.
3) Quantizing 24 bit images down to 8 bits.
4) Converting color into grayscale.
5) Quantizing grayscale to black&white.
6) Rotating a raster image by an arbitrary angle.
7) Free image manipulation software.
8) Format documents for TIFF, IFF, BIFF, NFF, OFF, FITS, etc.
9) Converting between vector formats.
10) How to get Pixar films.
11) How do I draw a circle as a Bezier (or B-spline) curve?
12) How to order standards documents.
13) How to FTP by email.
14) How to tell whether a point is within a planar polygon.
15) How to tessellate a sphere.
16) Specific references on ray-tracing and global illumination.
17) SIGGRAPH information online
18) SIGGRAPH Panels Proceedings available
19) Graphics mailing lists
20) Specific references on file formats
21) What about GIF?
22) What is morphing?
23) How to ray-trace height fields
24) How to find the area of a 3D polygon
25) How to join ACM/SIGGRAPH
26) Where can I find MRI and CT scan volume data?
27) Specific references on spatial data structures including quadtrees
and octrees
28) Where can I get a program to plot XY(Z) data or f(x) data?
29) Specific references on PEX and PHIGS
30) SIGGRAPH Online Bibliography Project
1) General references for graphics questions:
Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice (2nd Ed.), J.D. Foley,
A. van Dam, S.K. Feiner, J.F. Hughes, Addison-Wesley 1990, ISBN
0-201-12110-7
Procedural Elements for Computer Graphics, David F. Rogers, McGraw
Hill 1985, ISBN 0-07-053534-5
Mathematical Elements for Computer Graphics 2nd Ed., David F. Rogers
and J. Alan Adams, McGraw Hill 1990, ISBN 0-07-053530-2
Three Dimensional Computer Graphics, Alan Watt, Addison-Wesley 1990, ISBN
0-201-15442-0
An Introduction to Ray Tracing, Andrew Glassner (ed.), Academic Press
1989, ISBN 0-12-286160-4
Graphics Gems, Andrew Glassner (ed.), Academic Press 1990, ISBN
0-12-286165-5
Graphics Gems II, James Arvo (ed.), Academic Press 1991, ISBN
0-12-64480-0
Graphics Gems III, David Kirk (ed.), Academic Press 1992, ISBN
0-12-409670-0 (with IBM disk) or 0-12-409671-9 (with Mac disk)
Digital Image Warping, George Wolberg, IEEE Computer Society Press
Monograph 1990, ISBN 0-8186-8944-7
Digital Image Processing (2nd Ed.), Rafael C. Gonzalez, Paul Wintz,
Addison-Wesley 1987, ISBN 0-201-11026-1
A Programmer's Geometry, Adrian Bowyer, John Woodwark, Butterworths 1983,
ISBN 0-408-01242-0 Pbk
An automatic mail handler at Brown University allows users of "Computer
Graphics: Principles and Practice," by Foley, van Dam, Feiner, and
Hughes, to obtain text errata and information on distribution of the
software packages described in the book. Also, users can send the
authors feedback, to report text errors and software bugs, make
suggestions, and submit exercises. To receive information describing
how you can use the mail handler, simply mail graphtext@cs.brown.edu
and put the word "Help" in the Subject line. Use the Subject line
"Software-Distribution" to receive information specifically concerning
the software packages SRGP and SPHIGS.
Errata for "An Introduction to Ray Tracing" is available on
wuarchive.wustl.edu in graphics/graphics/books/IntroToRT.errata.
Errata for "Digital Image Warping" is in the same directory as
"Digital-Image-Warping.errata".
All C code from the "Graphics Gems" series is available via anonymous ftp
from princeton.edu. Look in the directory pub/Graphics/GraphicsGems for
the various volumes (Gems, GemsII, GemsIII), and get the README file first.
Errata to _Graphics Gems_ and _Graphics Gems II is available on
wuarchive.wustl.edu in graphics/graphics/books.
A list of computer graphics, computational geometry and image processing
journals is available from Juhana Kouhia, jk87377@cs.tut.fi.
2) Drawing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional screen.
The simple answer is, you divide by the depth. For a more verbose
explanation, see any of the above references, starting with:
The Foley & Van Dam & Feiner & Hughes "Computer Graphics" book is certainly
a good start. Chapter 6 is "Viewing in 3D", then read chapter 15,
"Visible-Surface Determination". For more information go to chapter 16 for
shading, chapter 19 for clipping, and branch out from there.
3) Quantizing 24 bit images down to 8 bits.
Find a copy of "Color Image Quantization for Frame Buffer Display" by
Paul Heckbert, SIGGRAPH '82 Proceedings, page 297. There are other
algorithms, but this one works well and is fairly simple. Implementations
are included in most raster toolkits (see item 7 below).
A variant method is described in "Graphics Gems", p. 287-293. Note that
the code from the "Graphics Gems" series is all available from an FTP site,
as described above.
Check out John Bradley's "Diversity Algorithm", which is incorporated into
the xv package and described in the back of the manual.
The ImageMagick package (see section 7 for where it is) contains another
quantizing algorithm which is presented as "doing a better job than the
other algorithms, but slower".
There's also an implementation of:
Wan, Wong, and Prusinkiewicz, _An Algorithm for Multidimensional Data
Clustering_, Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol. 14 #2 (June, 1988),
pp. 153-162.
avialable as princeton.edu:pub/Graphics/colorquant.shar. This code,
in modified form, appears in the Utah Raster Toolkit as well.
4) Converting color into grayscale.
The NTSC formula is:
luminosity = .299 red + .587 green + .114 blue
5) Quantizing grayscale to black&white.
The only reference you need for this stuff is:
Digital Halftoning, Robert Ulichney, MIT Press 1987, ISBN 0-262-21009-6
But before you go off and start coding, check out the image manipulation
software mentioned in item 7 below. All of the packages mentioned can do
some form of gray to b&w conversion.
6) Rotating a raster image by an arbitrary angle.
The obvious but wrong method is to loop over the pixels in the source
image, transform each coordinate, and copy the pixel to the destination.
This is wrong because it leaves holes in the destination. Instead,
loop over the pixels in the destination image, apply the *reverse*
transformation to the coordinates, and copy that pixel from the source.
This method is quite general, and can be used for any one-to-one
2-D mapping, not just rotation. You can add anti-aliasing by doing
sub-pixel sampling.
However, there is a much faster method, with antialising included,
which involves doing three shear operations. The method was originally
created for the IM Raster Toolkit (see below); an implementation is
also present in PBMPLUS. Reference: "A Fast Algorithm for Raster
Rotation", by Alan Paeth (awpaeth@watcgl.waterloo.edu) Graphics
Interface '86 (Vancouver). An article on the IM toolkit appears in
the same journal. An updated version of the rotation paper appears
in "Graphics Gems" (see section [1]) under the original title.
7) Free image manipulation software.
There are a number of toolkits for converting from one image format to
another, doing simple image manipulations such as size scaling, plus
the above-mentioned 24 -> 8, color -> gray, gray -> b&w conversions.
Here are pointers to some of them:
xv by John Bradley. X-based image display, manipulation, and format
conversion package. XV displays many image formats and permits editing
of GIF files, among others. The program was updated 5/92; see the file
contrib/xv-2.21.tar.Z on export.lcs.mit.edu.
PBMPLUS, by Jef Poskanzer. Comprehensive format conversion and image
manipulation package. The latest version is always available via
anonymous FTP as ftp.ee.lbl.gov:pbmplus*.tar.Z,
wuarchive.wustl.edu:graphics/graphics/packages/pbmplus/pbmplus*.tar.Z,
and export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/pbmplus*.tar.Z.
IM Raster Toolkit, by Alan Paeth (awpaeth@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca).
Provides a portable and efficient format and related toolkit. The
format is versatile in supporting pixels of arbitrary channels,
components, and bit precisions while allowing compression and machine
byte-order independence. The kit contains more than 50 tools with
extensive support of image manipulation, digital halftoning and format
conversion. Previously distributed on tape c/o the University of
Waterloo, an FTP version will appear someday.
Utah RLE Toolkit. Conversion and manipulation package, similar to
PBMPLUS. Available via FTP as cs.utah.edu:pub/urt-*,
princeton.edu:pub/Graphics/urt-*, and freebie.engin.umich.edu:pub/urt-*.
Fuzzy Pixmap Manipulation, by Michael Mauldin <mlm@nl.cs.cmu.edu>.
Conversion and manipulation package, similar to PBMPLUS. Version 1.0
available via FTP as nl.cs.cmu.edu:/usr/mlm/ftp/fbm.tar.Z,
ftp.uu.net:pub/fbm.tar.Z, and ucsd.edu:graphics/fbm.tar.Z.
Img Software Set, by Paul Raveling <raveling@venera.isi.edu>. Reads and
writes its own image format, displays on an X11 screen, and does some
image manipulations. Version 1.3 is available via FTP as
export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/img_1.3.tar.Z, and
venera.isi.edu:pub/img_1.3.tar.Z along with a large collection of color
images.
Xim, X Image Manipulator, by Philip R. Thompson. It does essential
interactive image manipulations and uses x11r4 and the OSF/Motif toolkit
for the interface. It supports images in 1, 8, 24 and 32 bit formats.
Reads/writes and converts to/from GIF, xwd, xbm, tiff, rle, xim, and
other formats. Writes level 2 postscript. Other utilities and image
application library are included. Not a paint package. Available via
ftp from gis.mit.edu.
xloadimage, by Jim Frost <madd@std.com>. Reads in images in various
formats and displays them on an X11 screen. Available via FTP as
export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/xloadimage*, and in your nearest comp.sources.x
archive.
xli, by Grame Gill, is an updated xloadimage with numerous improvements
in both speed and in the number of formats supported. Available in the
same places as xloadimage (contrib tape, comp.sources.x archives).
TIFF Software, by Sam Leffler <sam@okeeffe.berkeley.edu>. Nice
portable library for reading and writing TIFF files, plus a few tools
for manipulating them and reading other formats. Available via FTP as
ucbvax.berkeley.edu:pub/tiff/*.tar.Z or ftp.uu.net:graphics/tiff.tar.Z
xtiff, an X11 tool for viewing a TIFF file. It was written to handle
as many different kinds of TIFF files as possible while remaining
simple, portable and efficient. xtiff illustrates some common problems
with building pixmaps and using different visual classes. It is
distributed as part of Sam Leffler's libtiff package and it is also
available on export.lcs.mit.edu, ftp.uu.net and comp.sources.x.
xtiff 2.0 was announced in 4/91; it includes Xlib and Xt versions.
ALV, a Sun-specific image toolkit. Version 2.0.6 posted to
comp.sources.sun on 11dec89. Also available via email to
alv-users-request@cs.bris.ac.uk.
popi, an image manipulation language. Version 2.1 posted to
comp.sources.misc on 12dec89.
ImageMagick, an X11 package for display and interactive manipulation
of images. Includes tools for image conversion, annotation, compositing,
animation, and creating montages. ImageMagick can read and write many of
the more popular image formats. Available via FTP as
export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z.
Khoros, a huge (~100 meg) graphical development environment based on
X11R4. Khoros components include a visual programming language, code
generators for extending the visual language and adding new application
packages to the system, an interactive user interface editor, an
interactive image display package, an extensive library of image and
signal processing routines, and 2D/3D plotting packages. Available via
FTP as pprg.eece.unm.edu:pub/khoros/*.
LaboImage, a SunView-based image processing and analysis package. It
includes more than 200 image manipulation, processing and measurement
routines, on-line help, plus tools such as an image editor, a color
table editor and several biomedical utilities. Available via anonymous
FTP as ads.com:pub/VISION-LIST-ARCHIVE/SHAREWARE/LaboImage_3.1.tar.Z
The San Diego Supercomputer Center Image Tools, software tools for
reading, writing, and manipulating raster images. Binaries for some
machines available via anonymous FTP in sdsc.edu:sdscpub.
The Independent JPEG Group has written a package for reading and
writing JPEG files. FTP to ftp.uu.net:graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v?.tar.Z
Don't forget to set binary mode when you FTP tar files. For you MILNET
folks who still don't have name servers, the IP addresses are:
ads.com 128.229.30.16
cs.utah.edu 128.110.4.21
coral.cs.jcu.edu.au 137.219.17.4
export.lcs.mit.edu 18.24.0.12
freebie.engin.umich.edu 141.212.103.21
ftp.ee.lbl.gov 128.3.112.20
ftp.uu.net 137.39.1.9 or 192.48.96.9
gis.mit.edu 18.80.1.118
gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au 128.250.70.62
karazm.math.uh.edu 129.7.7.6
marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au 134.7.1.1
nic.funet.fir 128.214.6.100
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu 141.142.20.50
nl.cs.cmu.edu 128.2.222.56
pit-manager.mit.edu 18.172.1.27
pprg.eece.unm.edu 129.24.24.10
princeton.edu 128.112.128.1
sdsc.edu 132.249.20.22
ucbvax.berkeley.edu 128.32.133.1
venera.isi.edu 128.9.0.32
weedeater.math.yale.edu 128.36.23.17
wuarchive.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4
zamenhof.cs.rice.edu 128.42.1.75
Please do *not* post or mail messages saying "I can't FTP, could someone
mail this to me?" There are a number of automated mail servers that will
send you things like this in response to a message. See item 13 below for
details on some.
Also, the newsgroup alt.graphics.pixutils is specifically for discussion
of software like this. You may find useful information there.
8) Format documents for TIFF, IFF, BIFF, NFF, OFF, FITS, etc.
You almost certainly don't need these. Read the above item 7 on free
image manipulation software. Get one or more of these packages and
look through them. Chances are excellent that the image converter you
were going to write is already there. But if you still want one of the
format documents, many such files are available by anonymous ftp from
zamenhof.cs.rice.edu in directory pub/graphics.formats.
These files were collected off the net and are believed to be correct.
This archive includes pixel formats, and two- and three-dimensional object
formats. The future of this archive is uncertain at the moment, as Mark
Hall <foo@cs.rice.edu> will apparently no longer be maintaining it.
A second graphics file format archive is now being actively maintained
by Quincey Koziol (koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu). The latest version exists at
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in /misc/file.formats/graphics.formats. Apparently,
neither of these is complete, you might want to check both.
FITS stands for Flexible Image Transport System. It's a file format most
often used in astronomy. Despite the name, it can contain not only images
but other things as well. There is a regular monthly FITS basics and
information posting on sci.astro.fits - read it if you want to know more.
9) Converting between vector formats.
A lot of people ask about converting from HPGL to PostScript, or MacDraw
to CGM, or whatever. It is important to understand that this is a very
different problem from the image format conversions in item 7. Converting
one image format to another is a fairly easy problem, since once you
get past all the file header junk, a pixel is a pixel -- the basic objects
are the same for all image formats. This is not so for vector formats.
The basic objects -- circles, ellipses, drop-shadowed pattern-filled
round-cornered rectangles, etc. -- vary from one format to another.
Except in extremely restricted cases, it is simply not possible to do
a one-to-one conversion between vector formats.
There is software for converting to and from CGM files on ftp.psc.edu. The
contributor states that it runs on Unix, MS-Windows, and possibly the Mac.
A better, more specific blurb would be most welcome.
On the other hand, it is quite possible to do a close approximation,
rendering an image from one format using the primitives from another.
As far as I know, no one has put together a general toolkit of such
converters, but two different HPGL to PostScript converters have been
posted to comp.sources.misc. Check the index on your nearest archive
site.
A related frequent question is how to convert from some vector format
to a bitmapped image - from PostScript to Sun raster format, or HPGL to
X11 bitmap. For example, some of the commercial PostScript clones for
PC's allow you to render to a disk file as well as a printer. Also,
the PostScript interpreters in the NeXT box and in Sun's X11/NeWs can
be used to render to a file if you're clever. But in general, the
answer is no. However, if someone were to put together a vector to
vector conversion toolkit, adding a vector to raster converter would be
trivial.
GNU ghostscript (from the FSF - current version 2.5.2) includes
drivers for both ppm and gif format files, thus it can be used as
a PostScript to ppm or a PostScript to GIF filter. (It implements
essentially all of PostScript level 1 and alot of Display PostScript
and level 2).
10) How to get Pixar films.
The various John Lasseter / Pixar computer animated shorts are available
on video tape. You can order them from Direct Cinema Limited:
Film Individual Price Institutional Price
Luxo, Jr. $14.95 $50.00
Red's Dream $19.95 $75.00
Tin Toy $24.95 $75.00
Knickknack $24.95 $75.00
Luxo, Jr./Red's Dream/Tin Toy $39.95 $100.00
All tapes are on 1/2" VHS NTSC. Add $10/tape for PAL format. Also
available:
Tin Toy T-shirt $15.00
Knickknack 3D T-shirt $15.00 (includes glasses)
For individual orders, add $5 S&H for the first tape or shirt, $2 for
each additional tape or shirt. For institutional orders, add $5 S&H
for the first tape, $3 for each additional tape. Foreign shipping, add
$3/tape or shirt. Call 800-525-0000 (213-396-4774 international,
213-396-3233 FAX) to charge to your credit card. Call first to verify
prices and availability. Or, just write to:
Direct Cinema Limited
1749 14th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90404-4342
Allan Braunsdorf has this to say:
At SIGGRAPH they were selling a tape with all four shorts
for $25. That was a sale price. You can get it for slightly
more than that normally. ($35 maybe.) I believe it's
available from RenderMan Retail (at Pixar's address).
Pixar
1001 West Cutting Blvd.
Richmond, CA. 94804
(510) 236-4000
(510) 236-0388 (FAX)
You can obtain a video directly from Pixar which contains "Luxo, Jr.", "Red's
Dream", "Tin Toy" and "Knicknack" for $25.00, plus $2.50 for shipping. They
will take your order over the phone or via FAX with a major credit card. I
ordered mine just last week and received it several days later. Don't expect
to be able to rent a copy from your local video store. According to the license
agreement printed on the back cover of the case, it cannot be rented.
11) How do I draw a circle as a Bezier (or B-spline) curve?
The short answer is, "You can't." Unless you use a rational spline you
can only approximate a circle. The approximation may look acceptable,
but it is sensitive to scale. Magnify the scale and the error of
approximation magnifies. Deviations from circularity that were not
visible in the small can become glaring in the large. If you want to
do the job right, consult the article:
"A Menagerie of Rational B-Spline Circles"
by Leslie Piegl and Wayne Tiller
in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, volume 9, number 9,
September, 1989, pages 48-56.
For rough, non-rational approximations, consult the book:
Computational Geometry for Design and Manufacture
by I. D. Faux and M. J. Pratt,
Ellis Horwood Publishers, Halsted Press, John Wiley 1980.
For the best known non-rational approximations, consult the article:
"Good Approximation of Circles by Curvature-continuous Bezier Curves"
by Tor Dokken, Morten Daehlen, Tom Lyche, and Knut Morken
in Computer Aided Geometric Design, volume 7, numbers 1-4 (combined),
June, 1990, pages 33-41 [Elsevier Science Publishers (North-Holland)]
12) How to order standards documents.
The American National Standards Institute sells ANSI standards, and also
ISO (international) standards. Their sales office is at 1-212-642-4900,
mailing address is 1430 Broadway, NY NY 10018. It helps if you have the
complete name and number.
Some useful numbers to know:
CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) is ISO 8632-4 (1987). GKS (Graphical
Kernel System) is ANSI X3.124-1985. PHIGS (Programmer's Hierarchical
Interactive Graphics System) is ANSI X3.144-1988. IGES is ASME/ANSI
Y14.26M-1987. Language bindings are often separate but related numbers;
for example, the GKS FORTRAN binding is X3.124.1-1985.
Standards-in-progress are made available at key milestones to solicit
comments from the graphical public (this includes you!). ANSI can let
you know where to order them; most are available from Global Engineering
at 1-800-854-7179.
13) How to FTP by email.
There are a number of sites that archive the Usenet sources newsgroups
and make them available via an email query system. You send a message
to an automated server saying something like "send comp.sources.unix/fbm",
and a few hours or days later you get the file in the mail.
In addition, there is at least one FTP-by-mail server. Send mail to
ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com saying "help" and it will tell you how to use
it. Note that this service has at times been turned off due to abuse.
14) How to tell whether a point is within a planar polygon.
Consider a ray originating at the point of interest and continuing to
infinity. If it crosses an odd number of polygon edges along the way,
the point is within the polygon. If the ray crosses an even number of
edges, the point is either outside the polygon, or within an interior
hole formed from intersecting polygon edges. This idea is known in
the trade as the Jordan curve theorem; see Eric Haines' article in
Glassner's ray tracing book (above) for more information, including
treatment of special cases.
Another method is to sum the absolute angles from the point to all
the vertices on the polygon. If the sum is 2 pi, the point is inside,
if the sum is 0 the point is outside. However, this method is about an
order of magnitude slower than the previous method because evaluating the
trigonometric functions is usually quite costly.
Code for both methods (plus barycentric triangle testing) can be found in
the Ray Tracing News, Vol. 5, No. 3, available from princeton.edu:
pub/Graphics/RTNews/RTNv5n3.Z.
15) How to tessellate a sphere.
One simple way is to do recursive subdivision into triangles. The
base of the recursion is an octahedron, and then each level divides
each triangle into four smaller ones. Jon Leech <leech@cs.unc.edu>
has posted a nice routine called sphere.c that generates the coordinates.
It's available for FTP on ftp.ee.lbl.gov and princeton.edu.
16) Specific references on ray-tracing and global illumination.
Rick Speer maintains a cross-indexed ray-tracing bibliography:
Highlights of this edition-
i) more than 500 citations spanning the period from 1968 through
November '91;
ii) papers from all Siggraph, Graphics Interface, Eurographics, CG
International and Ausgraph proceedings through December, '91;
iii) all citations keyworded for easy lookup;
iv) cross-indices by keyword and author;
v) glossary of the 119 keywords used.
The bib is in the form of a PostScript file. The printout is 41 pages long.
Below is a list of ftp sites and the dirs that contain the file. It's named
"speer.raytrace.bib.ps.Z" and is compressed at most sites-
Site Dir
wuarchive.wustl.edu graphics/graphics/bib/RT.BIB.Speer/
karazm.math.uh.edu pub/Graphics/
gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au pub/papers/
nic.funet.fi pub/sci/papers/graphics
coral.cs.jcu.edu.au graphics/papers/
Eric Haines (erich@eye.com) maintains ray tracing and radiosity/global
illumination bibliographies. These are in "refer" format, and so can be
searched electronically (a simple awk script to search for keywords is
included with each). The bibliographies are available at most of the
sites listed above, and the most current versions are maintained at
princeton.edu: pub/Graphics/Papers as "RayBib.*" and "RadBib.*".
Tom Wilson (wilson@cs.ucf.edu) has collected over 300 abstracts from ray
tracing related research papers and books. The information is essentially
in plaintext, and Latex and troff formatting programs are included. This
collection is available at most of the sites above as "rtabs.*".
17) SIGGRAPH information online
[from Steve Cunningham and Ralph Orlick]
ACM-SIGGRAPH announces its online information site at siggraph.org
(128.248.245.250). This site now provides SIGGRAPH information via both
anonymous ftp and an electronic mail archive server.
The anonymous ftp service is very standard, and the ftp directory includes
both conference and publications subdirectories.
To retrieve information by electronic mail, send mail to
archive-server@siggraph.org
and in the subject or the body of the message include the message send
followed by the topic and subtopic you wish. A good place to start is with
the command
send index
which will give you an up-to-date list of available information.
18) SIGGRAPH Panels Proceedings available
[from Steve Cunningham and Bob Judd]
ACM SIGGRAPH announces the availability of the SIGGRAPH '91 Panels Proceedings
at the siggraph.org site (128.248.245.250). The proceedings are available
in three formats:
text (ASCII)
rtf (rich text format, suitable for many word processors)
word (MS Word for the Macintosh)
They may be retrieved from siggraph.org in two ways:
(1) by anonymous ftp
change to one of the directories
publications/s91/panels_proceedings/[text|rtf|word]
The text and rtf files may be downloaded in ASCII mode, while the word
files are stored in MacBinary format and must be downloaded in binary
mode.
Each directory contains a Table of Contents file (TOC) that describes the
contents of each panel file.
(2) by electronic mail
send mail to
archive-server@siggraph.org
You can retrieve either the text or rtf files. We suggest that you
first retrieve the index files by putting one of the messages
send panel91-txt index
send panel91-rtf index
in the subject or body of the message. You will get the necessary
information to retrieve the actual transcript files.
19) Graphics mailing lists
There are a variety of graphics-related mailing list out there, each
covering either a single product or a single topic. I have been an
active participant in one of these for some time now, and find the
focus and expertise which can be brought to bear on an isolated topic
to be nothing short of amazing.
Please send me the appropriate information if you have any others you
would like to see added.
Name: Imagine mailing list
Description: Discussion forum for users of the Imagine 3D Rendering and
Animation package by Impulse, Inc.
Platforms: Amiga, IBM
Subscription: imagine-request@email.sp.paramax.com
Posting: imagine@email.sp.paramax.com
Name: DCTV mailing list
Description: Discussion forum for users of the Digital Creations DCTV
box, software, and file formats
Platforms: Amiga
Subscription: DCTV-request@nova.cc.purdue.edu
Posting: DCTV@nova.cc.purdue.edu
Name: Rayshade Users mailing list
Description: Discussion forum for users of the Rayshade raytracer
Platforms: Most UNIX boxes, Amiga, Mac, IBM
Subscription: rayshade-request@cs.princeton.edu
Posting: rayshade-users@cs.princeton.edu
Name: Lightwave 3D software for Toaster mailing list
Description: Discussion forum for users of Lightwave, the Video
Toaster modelling and rendering package
Platforms: Amiga
Subscription: lightwave-request@bobsbox.rent.com
with "subscribe lightwave-l" in your message
Posting: lightwave@bobsbox.rent.com
Name: POV mailing list
Description: Discussion forum for DKBTrace and POV renderers
Platforms: Unix
Subscription: listserv@trearn.bitnet
Posting: dkb-l@trearn.bitnet
Name: Mailing List For Massive Parallel Rendering
Description: same?
Platforms: Unix
Subscription: mp-render-request@icase.edu
Posting: mp-render@icase.edu
20) Specific references on file formats
Graphics File Formats, David Kay and John Levine, Windcrest/McGraw-Hill
1992, ISBN 0-8306-3059-7 paper, ISBN 0-8306-3060-0 $36.95 hardcover,
ISBN 0-8306-3059-7 $24.95 paper. Comments - 26 formats, no software
(this is good, IMHO - I prefer books which are non-platform-dependent).
Questions about this book may be sent to gbook@iecc.cambridge.ma.us.
21) What about GIF?
GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format. It is portable and usable upon
a wide variety of platforms. It is quite limited in some ways (yes, the
keeper of the FAQ has some opinions after all), and in fact, I don't like
it much. However, it looks to me like the most-Frequently Asked Question
which was not previously covered in this list. The following is a list
of newsgroups and the like where one could go to find out about GIF.
Subject: alt.binaries.pictures FAQ - General info
Subject: alt.binaries.pictures FAQ - OS specific info
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.d,alt.binaries.pictures.misc,
alt.binaries.pictures.utilities,alt.binaries.pictures.fractals,
alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.d,news.answers
Available in the indicated USENET newsgroup(s), or via anonymous ftp from
pit-manager.mit.edu in the files:
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/pub/usenet/news.answers/pictures-faq/part2
Also available from mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu by sending a mail
message containing any or all of:
send usenet/news.answers/pictures-faq/part1
send usenet/news.answers/pictures-faq/part2
Send a message containing "help" to get general information about the
mail server.
Also, you could check out the resources described in sections 7, 8, and
20 above for more information.
22) What is morphing?
Warping is the deformation of an image by mapping each pixel to a new
location. Morphing is blending from one image or object to another one.
Valerie Hall has written an excellent introduction to warping and
morphing. This is available for anonymous ftp from marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au
in the directory pub/graphics/bibliography/Morph. There are three files:
morph_intro.ps.Z (PostScript version, many pictures - 1.5M)
morph_intro.txt.Z (text version)
m_responses.Z (Responses to morphing questions)
The files are compressed, so you must use binary transfer and
uncompress them afterwards.
23) How to ray-trace height fields
Height fields are a special case in ray-tracing. They have a number of uses,
such as terrain rendering, and some optimization is possible. Thus, they
get their own FAQ section. Note that further references can no doubt be
located via the ray-tracing bibs in section 16 above.
The following paper seems to be the definitive reference:
F. Kenton Musgrave
Grid Tracing: Fast Ray Tracing For Height Fields
July, 1988
<musg88.ps.Z>
This is available as "Research Report YALEU/DCS/RR-639" from Yale University,
it's also in the SIGGRAPH '91 Fractal Modeling in 3D Computer Graphics and
Imaging course notes, and (best of all) it's available on the net:
nic.funet.fi pub/sci/papers/musg88.ps.Z
weedeater.math.yale.edu pub/Papers/musg88.ms.Z
princeton.edu pub/Graphics/Papers/musg88.ms.Z
coral.cs.jcu.edu.au graphics/papers/musg88.ps.Z
gondwana.ecr.mu.OZ.AU pub/papers/musg88.ms.Z and musg88.ps.Z
An implementation of this paper may be found in Rayshade.
Another paper exists:
%A David W. Paglieroni
%A Sidney M. Petersen
%T Parametric Height Field Ray Tracing
%J Proceedings of Graphics Interface '92
%I Canadian Information Processing Society
%C Toronto, Ontario
%D May 1992
%P 192-200
And still one more:
Musgrave, Kolb, and Mace
"The Synthesis and Rendering of Eroded Fractal Terrains",
Computer Graphics Vol 23, No. 3 (SIGGRAPH '89 procedings) p. 41-50
24) How to find the area of a 3D polygon
The area of a triangle is given by (in C notation),
area = 0.5 * ( ( x[0] * y[1] ) + ( x[1] * y[2] ) + ( x[2] * y[0] ) -
( x[1] * y[0] ) - ( x[2] * y[1] ) - ( x[0] * y[2] ) );
and the area of a planar polygon is given by
area = 0.0;
for ( i = 0; i < n - 1; i++ )
area += ( x[i] * y[i + 1] ) - ( x[i + 1] * y[i] );
area += ( x[n - 1] * y[0] ) - ( x[0] * y[n - 1] );
area /= 2.0;
If the area is a negative number, the polygon or triangle is
clockwise, if positive, it is counterclockwise.
of Planar Polygons and Volume of Polyhedra:"
The area of a polygon P0, P1, P2, ... Pn, not in the x-y plane, is
given by
Area(Polygon) = 1/2 * | N . Sigma { Pk x Pk+1 } |
where N is the unit vector normal to the plane and P is a polygonal
vertex. The . represents the dot product operator and the x
represents the cross product operator. Sigma represents the summation
operator. | | represents the absolute value operator. Pn+1 is equal
to P0.
25) How to join ACM/SIGGRAPH
Probably the easiest way to join ACM/SIGGRAPH is to trot over to your
local technical library and find a copy of Communications of the ACM.
Somewhere within the first few pages will be an application blank.
Fill it out and mail it in. ACM membership for students costs $23.00,
Voting or Associate Membership $77.00 (yearly)
SIGGRAPH student membership costs an additional $16.00, $26.00 for
Voting or Associate Members (also yearly). To get TOG (Transactions
on Graphics) it's another $26.00 for students and $31.00 for Voting or
Associate Members.
If you just want to join SIGGRAPH without joining ACM, it'll cost you
$59.00 (no student discount).
There are surcharges for overseas airmailing of publications.
ACM Member services may be contacted via email at acmhelp@acmvm.bitnet.
Their phone number is (212) 626-0500. FAX number (212) 944-1318.
Snailmail address:
ACM
PO Box 12114
Church Street Station
New York, New York 10257
SIGGRAPH `93 will be held in Anaheim, California, at the Anaheim
Convention Center (just up the street from Disneyland) on August 1-6, 1993.
26) Where can I find MRI and CT scan volume data?
Volume data sets are available from the University of North Carolina at
omicron.cs.unc.edu (152.2.128.159) in /pub/softlab/CHVRTD. (Commerical
use is prohibited.)
Head data - A 109-slice MRI data set of a human head.
Knee data - A 127-slice MRI data set of a human knee.
HIPIP data - The result of a quantum mechanical calculation of a SOD data
of a one-electron orbital of HIPIP, an iron protein.
SOD data - An electron density map of the active site of SOD (superoxide
dismutase).
CT Cadaver Head data - A 113-slice MRI data set of a CT study of a cadaver
head.
MR Brain data - A 109-slice MRI data set of a head with skull partially
removed to reveal brain.
RNA data - An electron density map for Staphylococcus Aureus Ribonuclease.
27) Specific references on spatial data structures including quadtrees
and octrees
H. Samet,
The Design and Analysis of Spatial Data Structures,
Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1990.
ISBN 0-201-50255-0.
H. Samet,
Applications of Spatial Data Structures: Computer Graphics, Image Processing, a
nd GIS,
Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1990.
ISBN 0-201-50300-0.
28) Where can I get a program to plot XY(Z) data or f(x) data?
Gnuplot is a command-driven interactive data/function plotting program. It
runs on just about any machine, and is very flexible in terms of supported
output devices. The official North American distribution site for the latest
version is dartmouth.edu in /pub/gnuplot. More information is available from
the USENET newsgroup comp.graphics.gnuplot and its FAQ, graphics/gnuplot-faq.
ACE/gr (xmgr - Motif/xvgr - XView) is a data/function plotting tool for
workstations or X-terminals using X. Available from ftp.ccalmr.ogi.edu
in /CCALMR/pub/acegr.
robotx (Robot) is a general purpose plotting and data analysis program.
Requires XView, X-terminal or workstation. Available from sunsite.unc.edu
in /pub/academic/data_analysis.
Xgraph is a popular two-dimensional plotting program that accepts data in a
form similar to the unix program graph and displays line graphs, scatter plots,
or bar charts on an X11 display. Available from ic.berkeley.edu in /pub.
Drawplot is a program for drawing 2D plots on X10/X11 windows, SUNVIEW
displays, or HP2648 terminals. Available from xcf.berkeley.edu in /src/local.
29) Specific references on PEX and PHIGS
PEXlib Programming Manual, Tom Gaskins, 1154 pages, O'Reilly & Associates,
ISBN 1-56592-028-7
PEXlib Reference Manual, edited by Steve Talbott, 577 pages, O'Reilly &
Associates, ISBN 1-56592-029-5
PHIGS Programming Manual, Tom Gaskins, 908 pages, O'Reilly & Associates,
ISBN 0-93775-85-4 (softcover), ISBN 0-937175-92-7 (casebound)
PHIGS Reference Manual, edited by Linda Kosko, 1099 pages, O'Reilly &
Associates, ISBN 0-937175-91-9
30) SIGGRAPH Online Bibliography Project
The ACM SIGGRAPH Online Bibliography Project is a database of over 15,000
unique computer graphics and computational geometry references in BibTeX
format, available to the computer graphics community as a research and
educational resource.
The database is located at "siggraph.org". Users may download the BibTeX
files via FTP and peruse them offline, or telnet to "siggraph.org" and log
in as "biblio" and interactively search the database for entries of interest,
by keyword.
Additions/corrections/suggestions may be directed to the admin,
"bibadmin@siggraph.org".
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I am working with Visual Basic v2.0 for windows.
Specifically, I am working on an application that generates formatted reports.
Since, some of these reports can be rather large, my first question is:
1. Is there a way to increase the size of a list box or text box in
Visual Basic/windows beyond the 64k limit?
As I have not (as yet - being optimistic :-) come across a way to get
around the above problem, I am working on the following approach:
I am trying to create my own defined template in MS-Word, using the
WordBasic Macros so that I can open up Word from Visual Basic(VB) and load
this template of mine, which will work in the following way:
It will first open MyOwn.INI file (created in VB - at the time when the
user selected the kind of report he weanted) and read the section from the
.INI file and jump to the appropriate code in template - which will then
open and read a file pertaining to the section it read from the .INI file.
1. When using the GetProfileString function in WordBasic, is there a way
to specify/change the default .INI file (which is win.ini) to MyOwn.INI file?
2. When using the file Input$ function in WordBasic - is there a way to
read more than the 32k at one time?
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Any help will be appreciated.
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Never claimed it is a bug.
Never claimed it is a bug.
I guess I edited my note on this away from the article I posted to
many newsgroups.
I wrote something about making color modifications quickly
with 8bit quantized images and only at the saving the image to file
process we have to make the modifications to the 24bit image.
This makes sense, because the main use of XV is only viewing images.
Doing many changes to image, we should keep all modifications
in a buffer; and then before making the operations to 24bit image,
we should simplify the operation list for unnecessary operations.
Never claimed it is a bug.
I tried kept sure I don't claim that JPEG is noting else than
a compression algorithm, because I know what the JPEG is.
(You propably misunderstood what I wrote as you have done in many
places so far.)
You also missed what is (were) wrong with XV. However, I did wrote it.
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Well, isn't this just a hoot! :) All I read on this group is a bunch
of ppl fearing the misuses of information by the big bad evil govt.
This just happens to be a case of an ordinary-joe-netter, who decided
that he would create and/or distribute some misinformation. Ppl buy
into BS posts like this (I know, because I forwarded a copy of the
post to my office mate, who turned around and was (although he won't
admit it...sorry Joe!) ready to get in a fight about F-O-R-F-E-I-T-U-R-E!!!)
Please, if we're going to hold our govt (which admittedly has had and
still has its problems) to high standards, then mustn't we follow these
too? Electronic Freedoms only go so far.
Hey, I'm willing to forgive...after of course my office mate takes his
extra anti-paranoia pills! :)
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In some earlier discussions on this thread I may have
given the impression that even though children didn't
require baptism it wouldn't hurt if they were.
To the contrary, when you baptize children before
they are capable of comprehending it you deny them
their opportunity to demonstrate their desire to
serve God.
Have any of you considered that children are not
accountable for sin because they are not capable of
repentance?
Peter said to a group of "men and brethren," "Repent
and be baptized every one of you" (Acts 2:38).
Notice that he specified that if they *repent* then
they may be *baptized*.
In following Peter's instructions people must first
demonstrate repentance (a forsaking of their sins and
a desire to obey God's commands) *before* they are
eligible to be baptized.
Since young children are not capable of repenting,
they are not eligible for baptism.
And since God is both just and merciful "sin is not
imputed when there is no law" (Romans 5:13), young
children are not accountable for what they can't
comprehend.
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[my stuff about dealing with defferences deleted]
i am sorry; i did not mean to. i think i understand how your
experiences were much worse than the small bit of ridicule i have had
to put up with. i guess i didn't really understand before; now i do.
wow, pretty conservative church. (please excuse me if this seems like
a ridiculous understatement to you.)
(on a side note, that "under God" wasn't in there until recently -- i
believe my father, who is in his sixties, remembers saying the pledge
of allegiance without that in there. i don't know the history behind
that though.)
emotional blackmail -- ouch. thank goodness (i'll be neutral in my
thanks here :) ) i was raised in a completely tolerant household, so
that i could make my own decisions!
so atheism doesn't have to be taught, but christianity does. i guess
i can see that, although i can see a child believing in some sort of
god without anything other than his/ her own imagination as a basis.
(sorry, i guess this is sort of minor)
[my query about parallel between lack of choice for homosexuals and
lack of choice for him as an atheist deleted]
hmm, i wonder why i am a christian then? this isn't a flame, this is
a real wonder. does anyone else have opinions to offer on why you
believe in something that hasn't necessarily been "proven" to you?
sounds like you are an atheist by nature, then. or is it possible
that at least part of it is due to the apparently repressive nature of
the christianity of your childhood? if this is getting too personal
perhaps you should ignore it, or we can take it to email.
this may have been a general remark; you do not sound broken to me,
but indeed stronger.
yes, i agree with that. i've seen some of the damage repressive
religion can do, and as a result i intend to raise my own children as
much as i can to look around before accepting one religious stand
(atheism is included in this) and to _question everything_ -- this is
very important.
i can see that.
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From the Boston Globe, Thursday April 22 1993
p. 44
Walpole man, 32, guilty in rape
Kenne, N.H. -- A Walpole man
charged with kidnapping a
mother of two from her home, then
raping and beating her, has pleaded
guilty. Roger Santaw Jr. also plead-
ed guilty to an attempted escape
from Cheshire County jail last win-
ter. Santaw, 32 is scheduled to be
sentenced next week. The rape last
fall came six months after Santaw
was released from prision, where
he spent 15 years for a rape he commit-
ted when he was 16. (AP)
[end of article]
Any reactions? Did he do enough time? What should his penalty
be?
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Sealing off the Gaza Strip has the interesting side-effect of
demonstrating the non-viability of Gaza as an independent state.
Where are all of these people going to go to find work if they are
separated from Israel? If they complain about having to show id cards
on the way to work, how will they feel about showing passports on the
way to work?
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Yes, Duo prices have dropped. I don't have the MSRP reductions,
(though you can find it in a recent TidBITS, archived at sumex)
but here's the Berkeley educational price list (old -> new)
Duo 210 4/80 $1919 -> 1569
Duo 230 4/80 $2225 -> 1961
Duo 230 4/120 $2532 -> 2268
Duo 230 4/120/modem $2746 -> 2473
So there.
Joel
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Show me the realistic price tag...
Nice, but way over $900....
My point is price/performance not just performance...
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OK, you've already disqualified yourself (who ever you are) from
being objective.
Jews are a people with a common cultural heritage, religion, and history.
We are not a race.
You don't see a difference between killing British soldiers (who were
preventing Jews who tried to escape the Nazis from entering the
British mandate) and Arab terrorist who kill civilian men, women, and
children?!?
That's ridiculuous on atleast two counts. First of all, even if you identify
yourself as completely Jewish that doesn't rule out the possibility that you're
a self-hating anti-semite. One can always find Jews who are uncomfortable with
their identities (since they only want Jews to be cowering victims) and are
willing to speak up for their enemies. Secondly, the strength or weakness of
your arguments does not depend on your identity.
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There are doubts about it. Why don't you define what self-hating Jew means?
I found the idea itself of being a self-hating Jew to be one of those
rediculous things that people repeat and repeat because it seems to have a
meaning when in fact it has none.
I hope you can come up with a definition in itself and not something like:
look at this person, that is a self-hating Jew.
That is why I get moved when I see the Israeli Army killing people in
the Occupied Territories as much as I get moved when I see a Plestinian
stabing people in Israel.
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All consipiracy theories aside, (they are watching though :-)), will NASA
try to image the Cydonia region of Mars where the "Face
" is? If they can image it with the High resolution camera, it would
settle the FACE question once and for all. I mean, with a camera that
will have a pixel resolution of about 6 feet, we'd know whether all this
stuff is real or imagination.
Come on JPL and NASA folks, try to image it and settle this thing.
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#>In article <1993Apr20.070156.26910@abo.fi> MANDTBACKA@FINABO.ABO.FI
#
#># Ah, that old chestnut, your claim that moral objectivism ==
#>#scientific objectivism. I don't agree with it; now try proving, through
#>#some objective moral test, that my disagreeing is incorrect. =)
#>
#> Your claim, which you have deleted now was "not universal => not objective".
#
# I've deleted it now, in the interest of brevity. Go back a step
#and you'll see it was still in your post. Yes, that was my claim; if you
#can refute it, then please do so.
Firstly, an apology. You hadn't deleted your claim, and I was mistaken in
saying you had. Sorry for any offence caused.
Secondly, how can I refute your definition? I can only point up its
logical implications, and say that they seem to contradict the usage
of the word "objective" in other areas. Indeed, by your definition, an
objective x is an oxymoron, for all x. I have no quibble with that
belief, other than that it is useless, and that "objective" is a perfectly
good word.
#> So, what *is* objective? Not the age of the universe, anyway, as I show
#> above.
#
# How many ages can the universe have, and still be internally self-
#consistent? I'd be amazed if it was more than one. How many different
#moral systems can different members of society have - indeed, single
#individuals, in some cases - and humanity still stick together?
Begging the question. People can have many opinions about the age
of the universe and humanity can still stick together. You are
saying that the universe has a _real_ age, independent of my beliefs about
it. Why?
# The age of the universe, like most scientific facts, can be
#emirically verified through means that'll give the same result no matter
#who performs the testing (albeit there are error bars that may be on the
#largish side...).
This assumes that the universe has a real age, or any kind of reality
which doesn't depend on what we think. Why should an extreme Biblical
Creationist give a rat's ass about the means of which you speak?
#I've heard of no way to verify morality in a
#consistent way, much less compute the errors of the measurement; care to
#enlighten me?
The same is true of pain, but painkillers exist, and can be predicted
to work with some accuracy better than a random guess. I wrote
elsewhere that morality should be hypotheses about observed value.
If a moral system makes a prediction "It will be better if...",
that can be tested, and is falsifiable in the same way as a prediction
"This drug will relieve pain..."
# People's *ideas* about the age of object X are *not* objective;
#you can have any idea you like, and I can't stop you. Universae and
#their ages is another ballgame; they are what they are, and if you
#dislike some detail of them, that's a problem with your *opinion* of
#them.
Sure. Assume an objective reality, and you get statements like this.
#I claim that morality is an opinion of ours, and as such
#subjective and individual. If I'm wrong, then some more-or-less
#objectively "real" thing exists, which you label "objective morality";
#can you back up this positive claim of existence?
Can you back up your positive claim above? No. That's because it's an
assumption. I make the same assumption about values, on the basis
that there is no logical difference between the two, and the empirical
basis of the two is precisely the same.
#># Point: Morals are, in essence, personal opinions. Usually
#>#(ideally) well-founded, motivated such, but nonetheless personal. The
#>#fact that a real large lot of people agree on some moral question,
#>#sometimes even for the same reason, does not make morals objective; it
#>#makes humans somewhat alike in their opinions on that moral question,
#>#which can be good for the evolution of a social species.
#>
#> And if a "real large lot" (nice phrase) of people agree that there is a
#> football on a desk, I'm supposed to see a logical difference between the two?
#> Perhaps you can explain the difference to me, since you seem to see it
#> so clearly.
#
# Take a look on the desk - i.e., perform a test. If(football) THEN
#(accept theory) ELSE DO (Tell people they're hallucinating).
#
# Now take a look at morality. See anything? If so, please inform me
#which way to look, and WHY to look that particular way, as opposed to
#some other. Get my drift?
No. Just look. Are you claiming never to know what good means?
#># *Science* is a whole other matter altogether.
#>
#> Says you. Prove that those who disagree are wrong?
#
# That's a simple(?) matter of proving the track record of the
#scientific method.
I think it's great, and should be applied to values. I may be completely
wrong, but that's what I conclude as a result of quite an amount of
thought.
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InfoWorld (April 26, 1993 issue) has two articles about problems with DOS
6. A 'Second Look' article calls it a 'loaded gun' and that people
should exercise extreme caution if they decide to use it. The point out
that DoubleSpace and MemMaker are both problem areas that will cause a
number of folks problems.
MS's response was to the effect that there had been no problems reported
that they could duplicate (probably are not trying too hard).
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Hello,
how sensible is DES encrypted data towards bit errors? How much data per
bit will be lost in average (I assume you still have the correct key)?
Thanx for hints,
Axel
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Experience is what you get if you don't get what you want...
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Not nearly as angry as I was to have set the VCR yesterday only to get
home to find the Bruins VS Buffalo - that's what I get for reading the
TV section and not the sports section for what game will be aired.
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And you'd be wrong about that too.
Note that Texas isn't unique in this "more with-gun deaths than
with-car deaths", but some of the other states where it happens have
extremely strict gun laws. Oops - so much for the "meaning".
It isn't clear that the comparision means anything anyway as car
accidents are unintentional while gun deaths aren't, but if we're
going to make it, let's at least be honest.
Give it up for what? Gun control doesn't have any benefits, so
it fails by this standard.
Note that insurance gives me something in return - gun control doesn't.
That's half the question - the rest is "and what do you get for your
sacrifice". If the answer to the second question is "nothing", as it
is for gun control, then we don't have to ask the first question
because getting nothing means that no sacrifice is justified.
-andy
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Using the software you're using, I agree with you there. What I did:
I installed DOS, Windows and CPBackup (functionally the same
as your Norton, for the purposes of this discussion), and used the
DOS "backup" command on just that much. To restore, I boot to the
"system" diskette, and use DOS "restore" to read in that much, then
boot to windows and restore my full backups using CPB (Norton, in your
case), overwriting what I've just restored. That allows me to keep
this skeletal Windows essentially unchanged, with all my customization
on the "real" copy done using the 3rd-party backup utility.
Seems possible, if you can put skeletal versions of DOS and your backup
utility on a "system" floppy. Then you could restore it all on one "go".
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Didn't Fred Hoyle abandon the steady state theory?
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Where did the hacker ethic go?
We hackers of the 70's and 80' are now comfortably employed
and supporting families. The next generation takes
the radical lead now. Don't look for radicalism among us
old ones; we're gone...
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Greetings this is a general call for information regarding Image
Processing. I am looking for any material related to the field, and am
also trying to get my hands on some easy to use packages related to the
field. In particular source code for general use packages.
I already have several texts on the subject, but would appreciate more
input from people more knowledgable in the field than myself. I'm not
mathematically literate (ie. I don't have a degree in mathematics), so
any material that is suggested I would prefer that it was not
mathematically intensive.
The best book I have found on the subject at the moment is:
"Practical Digital Image Processing"
by Rhys Lewis
ISBN: 0-13-683525-2
Published by Ellis Horwood (c)1990.
Likewise I am trying to get a fair sample of programs that demonstrate
Image Processing techniques. So far I have 'xv', and 'khoros' for Unix.
'Dcview 2.1' for the IBM PC, and various related smatterings of C code
to help describe topics like, contrasting, dithering, image enhancement
via convolution etc.
If anyone could kindly supply me with some public domain software
pertinent to this area, or better still if they could tell me where I am
most likely to find it on the AARNET (Internet). If I can I would prefer
source code in C or Turbo Pascal that includes some Image Processing
code/algorithms, that I can readily alter/manipulate for the purposes of
demonstration it would be most helpful.
All the above information will contribute to my post-graduate studies,
and will be liberally used in my paper, and seminar on the subject.
Thanks in advance Vance Ashlin
Diploma Advanced Computing
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Thinking is dangerous, subversive, mindnumbing and leads you astray
ashlin@ironbark.ucnv.edu.au
i880429@redgum.ucnv.edu.au
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[re: voyages of discovery...]
Could you give examples of privately funded ones?
If you believe 1492 (the film), Columbus had substantial private
funds. When Columbus asked the merchant why he put the money in, the
guy said (slightly paraphrased) , "There is Faith, Hope and Charity.
But greater than these is Banking."
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Does anyone know of the whereabouts of technical reports that
I can access via the Internet?
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Paul's statement only asserts that that particular choice was not
a matter of karmic fulfillment of the past, just as the fate of the
man born blind (John 9) was not. There is no question here of the
simplistic idea of karma as a machine that is the sole determiner
of one's destiny. Even the eastern traditions, or many of them,
do not say that, as one knowledgeable poster pointed out.
And if in fact that Paul did not know about or believe in reincarnation
does not say anything one way or another about it. Even John the Baptist,
who Jesus says emphatically is Elijah (Matt 11:14), does not appear to
have been aware of it, at least at the point at which he was asked. But
it is interesting that his threefold denial -- to the question whether
he is the Christ, the Prophet (i.e. Isaiah), or Elijah, is emphatic in
the first case and very weak in the third.
I would like to add once again that, while it is important to discuss the
different passages that may point directly to the teaching of repeated
earth lives, one way or another, what I really see as important in our
time is that the subject be revisited in terms of the larger view of
Christianity and Christian doctrine. For the most part, those who do
accept it either reject the central ideas of Christianity or, if they
are Christians, hold their conviction as a kind of separate treasure.
I believe that Christianity has important new understanding to bring
to bear on it, and vice versa, much that is central to Christianity
takes on entirely new dimensions of meaning in light of repeated earth
lives. It has a direct bearing on many of the issues frequently discussed
in this newsgroup in particular.
I have said openly that I have developed my views of repeated earth lives
largely from the work of Rudolf Steiner. Not that I hold him as an
authority, but the whole picture of Christianity becomes clearer in light
of these ideas. Steiner indicated that the old consciousness of reincar-
nation necessarily had to fade away that it could be renewed in later
times, after a time of development of the Christ idea through the first
two millenia after Christ's deed on Golgotha. In our own time, it becomes
important that, having received the basic gospel of salvation, our
understanding of life and of the human being can now grow to embrace the
significance of this idea. For the discussions in this newsgroup, I
have tried to focus on that which can be related as directly as possible
to scripture and to fundamental Christian teaching and tradition.
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Hmm... all reports from Texas authorities indicate that none of the children
which the group released showed any signs of child abuse.. given that the same
results were found the last time the group was investigated for such allegations,
I can pretty much state that I strongly suspect the government of disinformation
/deception on this issue. And about stockpiling weapons/food, many recognized
religous groups practice maintaining a one years supply of food, and some even
maintain a supply of weapons and ammunition, why are those two facts grounds
for an armed assault? And from the dollar value of the weapons purchased,
if they bought decent firearms it comes out to about one handgun, rifle, and
shotgun for each adult, with a few extras... Going by that rule, the BATF
best get ready for the fight of their life when they assault Alabama...
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Actually, I've had a bad habit of stuffing a whole bunch of other garbage
junk mail in along with whatever else into *anybody's* prepaid envelopes
until they almost burst. I believe they pay postage by weight.
heh, heh, heh...
Anyways, don't tear up the quotes just yet...I sometimes use their
quotes or other insurance quotations as leverage to haggle for a
lower rate elsewhere. Usually it works to *your* advantage if
they are lower.
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Nowadays, usually with a computer. No theory predicted the numeric
discoveries listed above. No one can yet write an algorithm that will
predict the precise behavior of any of these at any precise level of
their evolution. So it remains for experimenters to gather data on their
behavior.
Gary
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[... snip ...]
Can you imagine what happens when a magazine explodes? Bullets go flying every
where. IMHO, these "gunshot wounds" were actually caused when the magazines
went up. A Texas ranger does not a pathologist make, so I'll wait for an
autopsy to determine if they were shot first.
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Since the demise of the Outbound company, what options would exist for me
if I were to buy one of their laptops?
(1) Since the Outbounds (2030, 2030E, etc) use mac plus roms, won't that
severly limit using future applications?
(2) What is a reasonable price for one of their laptops? The prices I've
seen seem extremely high considering the limited choices now.
(3) How reliable have they proven?
Any answers would be helpful.
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** I am considering either an inkjet or bubble jet printer. I've seen
inkjet printers and I was impressed with the near lazer quality.
I have heard a lot of bad things about the cheaper bubble-jet printers.
Does the ink smudge very easily and take a long time to dry ?
Thanks.
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Oops, what the hell a crosspost is this ?!
Have a look onto XV-3.00 before saying anything more about it's power.
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According to this reasoning there are no rights, at least none that I can think
of....
Let's see. Do I have a right to unpolluted air? No, because the majority
drive cars and use goods that create air pollution in the manufacturing process.
Do I have the right to clean water? I guess not, by the same reasoning.
I could go on with these examples for a long time....
Look at Nazi Germany. Because of the majority, Jews, homosexuals, blacks,
and others that were different had no rights. In fact they were terrorized,
imprisoned, and slaughtered. In this country did blacks have the right to be
free from slavery? I guess not, because the majority said that slavery was
good for them.
I think that a right has a moral imperative. If a law, imposed by the majority,
is immoral, one should not follow it. In fact, one should do everything in
his/her power to stop it. Of course, that doesn't mean that I would lose all
common sense to break the law, just because I thought it was immoral. I pay
my Federal Income Tax even though I am morally opposed to the U.S. Government
taking my money and spending it on weapons of mass destruction and terrorism.
This is precisely the point I am trying to make. We should _persude_ people
by logic, pointing out that it is in their self-interest to let all have
equal rights in all aspects of life, including adequate housing, food, and
medical care. I just happen to think that for a full life the aesthetic of
beauty and joy is also necessary. That is why I consider an uncluttered
night sky a right.
Have you ever been out in the desert, away from local lights, and most people?
The sky is dark and transparent. The Milky Way is ablaze with more detail
than you thought possible. The beauty and wonder takes your breath away.
Now imagine you live in the worst ghetto, say in L.A. Due to light pollution
you have never seen a dark sky. You might in fact never, not in your whole
life, ever see the majesty of the night sky. Every where around you, you see
squalor, and through your life runs a thread of dispair. What is there to live
for?
I admit these two scenarios are extreme examples, but I have seen both.
I, for one, need dreams and hopes, and yes, beauty, as a reason for living.
That is why I consider an uncluttered night sky a right.
George
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The cited passages are covered IN DEPTH in a FAQ for this group.
That particular FAQ (I've forgotten the author) discusses the
traditional vs. pro-homosexual interpretations of the passages and
indicates which points have strong textual support.
Perhaps the moderator might give again the instructions for
retrieving the FAQ on this topic?
BTW, this issue, while dealt with before, is VERY timely. One
of the major Presbyterian churches in California (St. Andrews -- a
MegaChurch in a rich neighborhood) is withholding their support of
Synod (amounts to about 10% of the budget of the Synod, which
covers all of Southern CA and Hawaii) until support for a
pro-homosexual lobbying group (the Lazarus Project) is terminated.
[This came from a news report on CNN yesterday -- corrections welcome.]
Tim
[I think it's time for me to post the FAQ.
This is an issue throughout the Presbyterian Church. On the other
side, one of the major churches in Cincinnati has been ordaining
homosexual elders, and has ignored Presbytery instructions not to do
so. And the church in Rochester where the judicial commission said
they couldn't install a homosexual pastor has made her an
"evangelist". These situations, as well as the one you describe, do
not appear to be stable. This will certainly be a major topic for the
General Assembly next month. If the church can't come up with a
solution that will let people live with each other, I think we're end
up with a split. Clearly neither side wants that, but I think we'll
get pushed into it by actions of both sides.
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1988 Burton Air Snowboard
Multiflex bindings
triple strap on back binding
board bag and leash included
recently toned and waxed
$139 firm.
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FOR SALE
Sherwood AM/FM Stereo Reciever
20 memory presets (I think, may be 18)
25 watts per channel
$70 or best offer
Please reply to gt7187c@prism.gatech.edu
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Bleep! Bleep! Bleep! The Bruins lost AGAIN in O.T. I can't stand it!
Aside from frustrated ravings, I must give Buffalo credit: they are making good
on most of their scoring opportunities, and are playing great defense. Boston
players can't seem to get control of the puck anywhere near the Buffalo net
except for on rare occasions. The Buffalo defense is also doing an excellent
job clearing away rebounds. Fuhr is playing great when the big save is needed
but he's also getting plenty of help.
Boston has been playing rather well (better than would be indicated by the
series score of 3-0) but is lacking that extra drive in the earlier part of the
game. As a result, Boston keeps leaving the ice at the end of the 1st period
2 goals down. This MUST stop if Boston is to have any hope of winning a single
game (the outlook for the Bruin's advancement to the second round are quite
bleak). IMHO, the Bruins NEED to score first. If they can do that, they have
an excellent chance of winning, since they have outplayed the Sabres in the
2nd and 3rd periods.
(The scary thing is that I'll be going to grad school in Buffalo next year.
I'll never cheer for the Sabres... You can't convert me... ^:)
MTM3
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Rubbish. The reason for the colour of the boards depends on the solder
mask that is used. Older boards (bakelite and phenolic) rarely used
a solder mask (these boards are not suited well to automatic stuffing
and soldering techniques) and hence are the colour of the compound
used to make them. These days boards are made of fibreglass for most
general purpose uses and have a solder mask applied to them to prevent
close traces shorting to one another during soldering (and also to prevent
the decomposition of traces under harsh environments). The light and dark
green boards ofter seen have a "dry film" mask applied to them (usually
applied as a complete film photographically produced). The blue (and red
or orange) boards are a two-part epoxy or a liquid-imageable resist
formulation and are applied in a different manner. There's a lot of info
about the pro's and con's of each, but that's another story...
Sla/n go fo/ill,
Risky B.
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Unfortunately, Hoover thought himself above the constitution, whatever he
considered the limits others should obey. He ruthlessly invaded the privacy
of many private and public citizens.
-mel
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How do I view .eps files on X? I have an image in color encapsulated
postscript, and need to view it on my screen.
Are there any utilities that will let me convert between encapsulated
postscript and plain postscript?
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This is one of the most ridiculous arguments I have heard from the
Europeans. "Let's let the Serbs massacre, rape, and ethnically clean
100,000 Bosnians because we don't want our pretty blue berets there
to get scratched". Well, I say, get them the hell out of there if you're
worried for them, but don't deny Bosnians their basic right to self
defense! Lift the embargo against Bosnia, and let them defend themselves.
What makes the UN troops more valuable than the Bosnian people? They
are letting the civilians die so the soldiers could survive, when
if anything, it should be the other way around. Idiots like Owen
expect Bosnians to swallow a forced plan, and just hope this problem
will go away. Well they're wrong. If they had got their butts in gear
(that is, if Bosnia had oil) a year ago, much of this could be prevented.
Now, however, the results of this tragedy will last for generations.
That's like forcing the jews to make peace with Hitler. Yeah right.
This, as senator Biden said, reeks of bigotry, and makes me and any
decent human being for that matter, quite sick. It should be the
Europeans, not the Americans, who take the inititiative and ask the
other for support. This is their backyard, not the Americans.
Today it's Bosnia, tomorrow it will be Kosovo and Macedonia, Greece,
and then Turkey, and the damn thing will spread. Not to mention
European muslims who weren't even practicing before will rally to
fundamentalism. Good luck handling that, your majesty! Owen was
upset at the question which compared him to Chamberlain, who hoped
to appease Hitler. He said that Chamberlain had been in Munich 2 years
before any war, I have been here during a blazing war for the last
18 months. Well, that makes him even worse, because Chamberlain could
have at least argued I'm giving Germany the benefit of the doubt,
whereas Owen can't even do that. What the west is doing is aiding the
Serbs by tying the Bosnians' hands, and making the stupid excuse of their
powerless troops on the ground, who can't even protect the Bosnian foreign
minister in their own armored vehicle, and watch the killers just walk
away! What kind of peace is this? What kind of civilization is this?
European leaders are PATHETIC, and are helping a genocide which even they
will not be able to forget. Yeah, they'll go to Africa and fight for some
damn dictator in their former colony, they'll go to Kuwait and fight for
oil, but in Bosnia not only they won't fight aggression, they'll even
tie the hands of the victim. Now you tell me who is fooling whom.
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:
: >I have a Microsoft Serial Mouse and am using mouse.com 8.00 (was using 8.20
: >I think, but switched to 8.00 to see if it was any better). Vertical motion
: >is nice and smooth, but horizontal motion is so bad I sometimes can't click
: >on something because my mouse jumps around. I can be moving the mouse to
: >the right with relatively uniform motion and the mouse will move smoothly
: >for a bit, then jump to the right, then move smoothly for a bit then jump
: >again (maybe this time to the left about .5 inch!). This is crazy! I have
: >never had so much trouble with a mouse before. Anyone have any solutions?
Here is another hint:
I have a really jumping mouse (ps2 type), and finally the mouse
stops jump changing HIMEM.SYS (yes, himem!), is you use:
DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS /M:x
x can be 1,2,...,8 (Of course my computer DON'T appear on the list for
these parameter)
And maybe, your mouse can stop jump... (But your problem looks more
like a dirty mouse ;)...
Hope it help (to anybody!)
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And I thought the nutters were the ones throwing the bricks from the
bridge.......
An institution?
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Please reply to the seller below.
For Sale:
Sun SCSI-2 Host Adapter Assembly
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Brand New In Unopened Mylar
Sun part no. 501-1167
50pin Dsub external connector
Compatible with Sun 3/100/200, 4/200/300 machines
Available March 1, 1993.
Originally purchased for ~$1,200 eighteen months ago
Please email offers to:
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Or alternatively, 75% of the questions cover 10% of the topics in this group -
making them frequently asked.
So the other 25% cover 90% of the topics, making them rarely asked and thus in
sore need of answering ...
--
Chris Lilley
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Manchester, UK. M13 9PL Internet: C.C.Lilley@mcc.ac.uk
Voice: +44 (0)61 275 6045 Fax: +44 (0)61 275 6040 Janet: C.C.Lilley@uk.ac.mcc
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#
# Which Article of the Constitution gives me the right of revolution if things
# seem to be going cockeyed??
#
# Hmmm...
# --
# Peter G. White, President, Synthesis 93 Inc.
# Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
# Peter.White@mixcom.com
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KNX AM, 1070 in LA, will be unhappy to hear about this, I'm sure. :-)
(isn't KNBR in the bay area?)
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From "Management of Electronics Assembly" (Ian Oakes)
After talking about 63/37 tin lead alloy and the eutectic point...
"Occasionally, impurities may be added to solder, to vary charactersitics
within the soldering process in an attempt to improve performance. For
example, addition of small quantities of antimony and copper can reduce
the amount solder moves under stress when solid. For particular
applications additions of impurities may be warranted but, in general, it
is best to keep the solder used in a soldering process as pure as possible."
I guess this is the good oil for commercial operations, but it doesn't
mention anything esoteric.
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nz New Zealand
au Australia
jp Japan
kr Korea
--
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Sorry, that's a feature. The ICCCM specifies how the app should set its title, so the wm is obliged to do it. If this bothers you, complain to the app writer.
Write your own wm that doesn't support the ICCCM. Or write an program that you give a window ID and a title. The your program can set the windows title for the app and then if the app changes it, your program switches it back again.
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I watched the final inning of Bosio's no-hitter with several people at
work. After Vizquel made that barehanded grab of the chopper up the
middle, someone remarked that if he had fielded it with his glove, he
wouldn't have had time to throw Riles out. Yet, the throw beat Riles
by about two steps. I wonder how many others who watched the final out
think Vizquel had no choice but to make the play with his bare hand.
Does anybody think Vizquel was wrong to field the ball barehanded? And
if he failed to field it cleanly, would it (or should it) have been an
error or a hit? (Judging from Bosio's grimace when the ball bounced
past him, he must have thought it would go through for a hit.) Whether
Vizquel was right or wrong, he certainly made one hell of a play.
--
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Phil Brown |
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Bandwidth is unlikely to be the problem, except over a wet string network.
One of major flaws of X is the horrendous number of transactions (and
hence process switches) that it forces upon a host. Actual measurements
(hourly average) are 5 per second per logged in user, which can lead to
20-50 or more process switches (depending on whether each event is
filtered by the window manager as well as the applications and how
many processes are needed for each character.)
While a blinking cursor needs only the application and the networking
process, and does not add any transactions, it will add something like
10 process switches per second per user. This is a significant increase
in overhead, especially as the application may have quite a large working
set. If you want a rapidly blinking cursor, there could be as many
as 50.
If you want to go there, I wouldn't start from here!
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Let me say that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is
central to Christianity. If you personally believe that Jesus Christ
died for you, you are a part of the Christian body of believers.
We are all still human. We don't know it all, but homosexual or heterosexual,
we all strive to follow Jesus. The world is dying and needs to hear about
Jesus Christ.
Are you working together with other Christians to spread the Gospel?
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You are talking about the man who as a federal attorney did so
much to frustrate the proper investigation of the JFK assassination by
the House sub-committee on assassinations. Fox and hen house???
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Hmmmmmm. $30 seems a bit expensive. How big is the chip? What kind
of packages will be used? 3 volt or 5 volt technology? How much
current will it draw? I think there are many practical questions
that haven't been answered, especially since this chip already exists!
OK, I've got a big problem with all of this. How in the world do you
expect to sell these chips for even $30 after all the overhead involved
in this programming procedure? 2-4 people, a laptop, only 300 chips at
a time: give me a break. And how long does all of this take? Even if
it is a minute per chip, it will take the greater part of a day to
turn out 300 of these things. How long do you suppose it will take to
program those 10,000 chips mentioned above? This is highly impractical!
So where can I find info on this AT&T device? What kind of vocoder
does it use? Does it require ISDN phone lines? If not, is it full
duplex? How does it sound? What kind of synchronization scheme is
used? Will all other little black boxes have to conform to AT&Ts choices
of protocol, etc.? Will anybody else be allowed to build boxes that
conform to these specifications?
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My wife had hives during the first two months
of her pregnancy. My son (3 months old), breast-fed,
now has the same symptoms. She has been to a skin-specialist,
but he has merely prescribed various medicines (one
each visit as though by trial and error :-))
Anti-histamines worked on both of them, but looks like
becoming less effective.
Are there other solutions? Thanks.
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David, this study looks like a good one. Gordon Rubenfeld did a Medline
search and also sent me the same reference through e-mail. Since
commercial yogurt does not always have a good Lactobacillus a. or
bulgaricus culture, a negative finding would not have been too informative.
This is often the reason why Lactobacillus acidophilus tablets are
recommended rather than yogurt.
I guess the next question is why would this introduction of "good" bacteria
back into the gut decrease the incidence of vaginal candida blooms if the
anus was not serving as a candida reservoir(a fact that Gordon R. vehementy
denys)? I see two possible theories. One, the L. acidophilus, which is a
facultatively anaerobic bacterium, could make it through the gut and
colonize the rectal area to overgrow the candida. This would not explain
the reoccurance of candida blooms in the vagina after the yogurt ingestion
was stopped though. The other is that the additional bacteria in the
intestinal tract remove most of the glucose from the feces and candida
looses it's major food source.
Getting Lactobacillus acidophilus to colonize the vaginal tract(where it is
normally found) would have a much better effect on the recurrance of vaginal
yeast blooms though. An acetic acid, Lactobacillus acidophilus douche has
been used to get this effect but I've not seen any such treatment reported in
the medical literature. This would be an example of physicians conducting
their own clinical trials to try to come up with treatments that help their
patients. When this is done in private practice, the results are rarely, if
ever published. It was the hallmark of medicine until the modern age
emerged with clinical trials. It really raises a big question. Does the
medical profession cast out the adventerous few who try new treatments to
help patients or does it look the other way.
This particular issue is really a very simple one since no real dangerous
therapy is involved(even the anti-fungals are not all that dangerous). But
there are some areas(like EDTA chelation therapy), where the fire is pretty
hot and somebody could get burned. It's really tough. Do I follow only
well established protocols and then give up if they don't work that well or
do it try something that looks like it will work but hasn't been proven to
work yet?
My stand is to consider other treatment possibilities, especially if they
involve little or no risk to the patient. Getting good bacteria back into
the gut after antibiotic treatment is one treatment possibility. The other
is getting L. acidophilus into the vaginal tract of a woman who is having a
problem with recurring yeast infections.
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Is it possible through either pin configuration or through software
programming to change the IP numbers on an ethernet card?
The Ethernet card doesn't use the IP number (32-bits, usually
#.#.#.#); it uses the Ethernet address (48-bits, usually
#:#:#:#:#:#). I have never run across an Ethernet controller that
cannot be programmed to use an address that is not assigned to it.
DECNET requires this feature.
However, that said, there is no reason to ever change the Ethernet
address. They are globally unique, the first three bytes being
assigned to the manufacturer by the IEEE, and the last three by the
manufacturer.
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I think you mean ARPA; AARP is the American Association of Retired Persons,
and I seriously doubt that they'd want young whippersnappers building
anything on their backbones, what with de-calcification and all :-)
The general convention is that if it doesn't have a country tag on it, it's
a US site. That includes:
.com commercial
.edu educational
.mil US Military sites
.gov US Gov't non-military sites (eg NASA sites)
.org anyone who is "none of the above"
There are sites with such tags that are non-US sites, but they will have
the country extension (eg xxxx.edu.au is an extension I saw today).
US sites can also use the .us extension, but, as Mr. Smith pointed
out, the Internet was built on the ARPANet backbone, and they default
to US sites if there's no country code.
I would suggest that anyone who didn't know this (or wants to know
more about it on a non-system-administrative level) check out
the book _The_Whole_Internet_User's_Guide_and_Catalog_ by Ed Krol.
(or is it Catalog and User's Guide? I can never remember, and my copy
is my desk at home...). It's a very good not-necessarily-technical
guide to the Internet and the various utilities that lurk on it (including
USENET). I don't think it's part of the Nutshell series, but it is
published by O'Reilly and Associates.
This should go to one of the news.* newsgroups, but damned if I
can figure out which one.... :-)
James
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I was asked to post the team log of this year's winning team in the regular
season draft. Here 'tis:
%begin Dave_Wessels
...reading team 'Dave_Wessels' from database
%log all
Team log:
Name Team Points Value Bought Week Sold Week
Trevor Linden VAN 72 72.0 78.8 pre 70.4 10
Cliff Ronning VAN 85 85.0 74.6 pre 97.8 6
Robert Reichel CGY 88 88.0 58.9 pre 51.4 8
Pat Verbeek HFD 82 82.0 63.0 pre 64.3 7
Pat Falloon SJ 28 28.0 62.7 pre 46.8 7
John MacLean NJ 48 48.0 55.0 pre 27.5 7
Eric Lindros PHI 75 75.0 55.0 pre 105.0 6
Rick Tocchet PIT 109 109.0 81.2 pre 106.9 9
Greg Adams VAN 56 56.0 63.0 pre 93.8 8
Mike Ricci QUE 78 78.0 60.3 pre 79.8 6
Joe Juneau BOS 102 102.0 55.0 pre 110.9 6
Kevin Hatcher WSH 79 79.0 57.4 pre 54.6 6
Teemu Selanne WPG 132 132.0 55.0 pre 109.2 6
Pavel Bure VAN 110 110.0 77.5 pre 108.9 8
Dixon Ward VAN 52 52.0 55.0 pre 61.2 7
Russ Courtnall MIN 79 79.0 60.7 6 84.6 14
Darren Turcotte NYR 53 53.0 60.7 6 72.1 14
Christian Ruuttu CHI 54 54.0 61.9 6 52.2 13
Petr Nedved VAN 71 71.0 59.3 6 84.5 12
Petr Klima EDM 48 48.0 65.3 6 -- --
Tony Granato LA 82 82.0 56.0 6 75.6 12
Steve Duchesne QUE 82 82.0 88.7 6 92.2 13
Alexander Mogilny BUF 127 127.0 103.8 6 118.8 14
Ray Sheppard DET 66 66.0 55.0 7 63.0 15
Steve Larmer CHI 70 70.0 64.9 7 79.7 17
Vincent Damphousse MTL 97 97.0 64.9 7 94.5 15
Tony Amonte NYR 76 76.0 63.0 7 63.0 16
Brendan Shanahan STL 94 94.0 55.0 8 -- --
Corey Millen LA 39 39.0 55.0 8 48.9 16
Johan Garpenlov SJ 66 66.0 55.0 8 55.9 15
Kelly Kisio SJ 78 78.0 63.0 8 72.3 15
Pat Elynuik WSH 57 57.0 57.0 9 56.7 16
Benoit Hogue NYI 75 75.0 61.6 10 74.3 20
Pat Flatley NYI 60 60.0 55.0 11 59.9 18
Rod Brind'Amour PHI 86 86.0 74.1 12 81.0 19
Michal Pivonka WSH 74 74.0 55.0 12 -- --
Joe Mullen PIT 70 70.0 55.0 12 -- --
John Cullen TOR 50 50.0 55.0 13 55.7 19
Stephane Richer NJ 73 73.0 55.0 13 61.8 19
Jeff Norton NYI 50 50.0 64.0 14 56.3 20
Glenn Anderson TOR 65 65.0 55.0 14 -- --
Ray Bourque BOS 82 82.0 65.6 14 -- --
Bernie Nicholls NJ 60 60.0 72.8 14 67.8 20
Andrew Cassels HFD 85 85.0 56.0 14 -- --
Dmitri Kvartalnov BOS 72 72.0 82.1 15 -- --
Tomas Sandstrom LA 52 52.0 59.7 15 43.6 22
Joe Sakic QUE 105 105.0 109.6 15 -- --
Rob Blake LA 59 59.0 59.5 16 -- --
Derek King NYI 76 76.0 68.3 16 70.9 22
Michel Goulet CHI 44 44.0 55.0 16 45.4 23
Mike Modano MIN 93 93.0 90.5 17 -- --
Dmitri Khristich WSH 67 67.0 55.0 18 -- --
Alexander Semak NJ 79 79.0 62.6 19 -- --
Nikolai Borschevsky TOR 74 74.0 69.3 19 -- --
Mike Donnelly LA 69 69.0 70.5 19 -- --
Jeff Brown STL 78 78.0 69.1 20 -- --
Thomas Steen WPG 72 72.0 55.0 20 -- --
Kevin Dineen PHI 63 63.0 55.5 20 -- --
Mario Lemieux PIT 160 160.0 134.9 22 -- --
Wayne Gretzky LA 65 65.0 55.0 23 -- --
You have 1.9 cash points.
As of week 28, your team is placed 1 (of 262 teams).
--
Andrew Scott | andrew@idacom.hp.com
HP IDACOM Telecom Operation | (403) 462-0666 ext. 253
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Come again? The image-conscious Armenians sorely feel a missing
glory in their background. Armenians have never achieved statehood
and independence, they have always been subservient, and engaged
in undermining schemes against their rulers. They committed
genocide against the Muslim populations of Eastern Anatolia
and x-Soviet Armenia before and during World War I and fully
participated in the extermination of the European Jewry
during World War II. Belligerence, genocide, back-stabbing,
rebelliousness and disloyalty have been the hallmarks of the
Armenian history. To obliterate these episodes the Armenians
engaged in tailoring history to suit their whims. In this zeal
they tried to cover up the cold-blooded genocide of 2.5 million
Turks and Kurds before and during World War I.
And the justice is long overdue.
Source: Documents: Volume I (1919).
"Document No: 50," Archive No: 4/3621, Cabin No: 162, Drawer
No: 5, File No: 2905, Section No: 433, Contents No: 6, 6-1, 6-2.
(To 36th Division Command - Militia Commander Ismail Hakki)
"For eight days, Armenians have been forcibly obstructing people from
leaving their homes or going from one village to the other. Day and night
they are rounding up male inhabitants, taking them to unknown destinations,
after which nothing further is heard of them. (Informed from statements
of those who succeeded in escaping wounded from the massacres around
Taskilise ruins). Women and children are being openly murdered or are
being gathered in the Church Square and similar places. Most inhuman and
barbarous acts have been committed against Moslems for eight days."
"Document No: 52," Archive No: 4/3671, Cabin No: 163, Drawer
No: 1, File No: 2907, Section No: 440, Contents No: 6-6, 6-7.
(To: 1st Caucasian Army Corps Command, 2nd Caucasian Army Corps
Command, Communications Zone Inspectorate - Commander 3rd Army
General)
"As almost all Russian units opposite our front have been withdrawn, the
population loyal to us in regions behind the Russian positions are
facing an ever-increasing threat and suppression as well as cruelties
and abuses by Armenians who have decided to systematically annihilate
the Moslem population in regions under their occupation. I have
regularly informed the Russian Command of these atrocities and
cruelties and I have gained the impression that the above authority
seems to be failing in restoring order."
Serdar Argic
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Do you mean that MSW3.1 is objectively inferior in _some_ respects (which
is trivially true), that it is objectively inferior in _all_ respecets
(which is trivially false) or do you mean something else? What criteria
have you chosen for your objective assesment? Are you sure that these
criteria are themselves objective?
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I had to turn to one of my problem sets that I did in class for this
little problem. I don't have a calculator, but I DO have the problem set that
we did not too long ago, so I'll use that, and hope it's what you wanted.
This is a highly simplified problem, with a very simple burst. Bursts are
usually more complex than this example I will use here.
Our burst has a peak flux of 5.43E-6 ergs cm^-2 sec^-1 and a duration
of 8.95 seconds. During the frst second of the burst, and the last 4 seconds,
its flux is half of the peak flux. It's flux is the peak flux the rest of the
time. Assume that the background flux is 10E-7 erg cm^-2 sec^-1.
Then we had to find the integrated luminosity of the burst, for several
different spheres: R=.25pc(Oort Cloud Radius), R=22.5pc(at the edge of the
galaxy), R=183.5pc or the edge of the galactic corona, and lastly at a
R=8800Mpc.
We integrated the flux over all time to find the fluence, then used the
old standby formula:
Luminosity=4(pi)(r^2)Fpeak
For a radius of .25 pc, we found an L around 10^32 erg/sec. Pretty
energetic for close by. for the coronal model, we found around 10^43 erg/sec.
And lastly, for the cosmological model an L=10^53. That's what you'd call
moderately energetic, I'd say. Any suggestions about what could put out that
much energy in one second?
-jeremy
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[re a true 24 bit XV]
Don't mind if I do.
As someone who would _love_ to see XV go to 24 bit, this
would be plenty for me.
a) XV can Load a 24 bit image, and display it in all it's
24 bit glory on 24 bit X displays.
b) All other operations (Crop, Dither, Smooth, etc.) are not
supported on 24 bit images.
how hard would this be?
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This is a RFD on a proposal for a newsgroup which would promote a
sharing on the "Johannine hours" as proposed each month by the monks of
the ecumenical community of Taize (pronounced te-zay) in France.
NAME OF PROPOSED NEWSGROUP:
==========================
soc.religion.taize (Unmoderated)
PURPOSE OF THE GROUP:
====================
The Taize Community is an international ecumenical community of monks
based in France. Many young adults come there to search for meaning in
their life and to deepen their understanding of their faith through a
sharing with others. This newsgroup will allow such a sharing through a
monthly "Johannine Hour" which will be posted at the beginning of each
month. A "Johannine hour" involves a short commentary on a given Bible
passage, followed by some questions for reflection. Any thoughts that
may arise in consequence and that you wish to share with others can be
posted here. We are not interested in theological debate, and even less
in polemics. No expertise is required! The idea is to help one another
to deepen our understanding of Scripture as it is related to our own
life-journey.
The idea of "Johannine hours" was born in Taize as a simple response
to all those who were trying to assimilate the Bible's message in the
midst of their daily life. Because of work or studies, it is often
impossible to spend long hours in silence and reflection, but
everyone can take an hour from time to time to enter a church, sit
quietly at home or go out for a walk in the woods. There, in silence,
we can meditate on a passage of Scripture to listen to the voice of
Christ.
During the time of silence, it is important to concentrate on what we
understand and not waste time worrying if, in some Biblical expressions,
we find it difficult to hear the voice of Christ. The idea is to
communicate to others what we have understood of Christ, not burdening
them with our own hesitations but rather telling them what has brought
us joy, what has led us to run the risk of trusting more deeply.
Perhaps those who read and think about the "Johannine Hours" in this
newsgroup could share their reflections and discoveries with others.
The important thing is the complementarity between two aspects, the
personal aspect of silent, personal reflection and the communal aspect
of sharing, which through Usenet makes us a part of a worldwide network.
BACKGROUND OF THE TAIZE COMMUNITY:
=================================
The following provides some background information on the life and
vocation of the Taize (pronounced te-zay) community.
"A PARABLE OF COMMUNION": August 1940, with Europe in the grip of
World War II, Brother Roger, aged 25, set up home in the almost
abandoned village of Taize, in Eastern France. His dream: to bring
together a monastic community which would live out "a parable of
community", a sign of reconciliation in the midst of the distress of
the time. Centering his life on prayer, he used his house to conceal
refugees, especially Jews fleeing from the Nazi occupation.
AN INTERNATIONAL AND ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY: Taize's founder spent the
first two years alone. Others joined him later and at Easter 1949,
seven brothers committed themselves together to common life and
celibacy. Year by year, still others have entered the community, each
one making a lifelong commitment after several years of preparation.
Today, there are 90 brothers, Catholics and from various Protestant
backgrounds, from over twenty different countries. Some of them are
living in small groups in poor neighbourhoods in Asia, Africa, North
and South America. The brothers accept no donations or gifts for
themselves, not even family inheritances, and the community holds no
capital. The brothers earn their living and share with others
entirely through their own work. In 1966, Sisters of Saint Andrew, an
international Catholic community founded 750 years ago, came to live
in the neighbouring village, to share the responsibility of welcoming
people in Taize.
TAIZE AND THE YOUNG; THE INTERCONTINENTAL MEETINGS: Young adults, and
less young, have been coming to Taize in ever greater numbers since
1957. Hundreds of thousands of people from Europe and far beyond have
thus been brought together in a common search. Intercontinental
meetings take place each week, Sunday to Sunday, throughout the year
and they include youth from between 35 and 60 countries during any
one week. The meetings give each person the opportunity to explore
the roots of their faith and to reflect on how to unite the inner
life and human solidarity. The meetings in summer can have up to
6,000 participants a week. Three times every day, the brothers and
everybody on the hill come together for common prayer in the Church
of Reconciliation, built in 1962 when the village church became too
small.
"A PILGRIMAGE OF TRUST ON EARTH" The community has never wanted to
create a "movement" around itself. Instead, people are called to
commit themselves in their church at home, in their neighbourhood,
their city or village. To support them in this, Taize has created
what it calls "a pilgrimage of trust on earth". At the end of each
year, the pilgrimage has a "European meeting" which brings together
tens of thousands of young adults from every part of Europe for
several days in a major city. There have also been meetings in Asia
and in the United States. Every year, Brother Roger writes an open
letter to the young. Usually completed during a stay in one of the
poor regions of the world, these are translated into thirty languages
and provide themes for reflexion for the following year.
NOTE: Discussion on the creation of this newsgroup will take place in
news.groups.
For any further information contact: Brother.Roy@almac.co.uk
brother.roy@almac.co.uk
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Yes Russ, there is.
QuinZip is a Windows version but I don't think it handles
all the functions available in the DOS version.
Last I looked QuinZip could be found on the Monash University (Australia)
mirror site of Cica, so I'd assume it's still on Cica itself
and other mirrors.
Have a look in the /util(s?) directory for a file called
qzip21.zip.
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: > I have an Ethernet card that i took out off an old LC. The card
: > is manufactured by Asante. On it i can read:
: > "Asante Tech, inc. Copyright 1991. MACCON + LC REV.B".
: > The card has an fpu socket on it. It provides thin Ethernet connector
: > and there's another connector on it which resembels to phone connectors.
: >
: > My questions are:
: > - Will this card work on any other model than LC-serie ?, given that
: > it's a PDS card, will it work with the IIsi PDS slot ?. I think there
: > may be a probleme because the LC has 16 bit wide slots.
: It probably won't work with any other LC. The ones I have for the LC II
: are Rev. D. No, it won't work in the IIsi's PDS slot since it's a 68030
: PDS, while the LC has the 68020 PDS. The IIsi and SE/30 share the same
: kind of card.
Ok, i see. Does Asante propose any upgrade for their cards ?. Do they have
an email adress so i can ask them directly ?. Their Phone number will be
Ok, even if i pay the overseas call i'm really willing to know what to do
with this card.
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From article <1993Apr27.004240.24401@csi.jpl.nasa.gov>, by eldred@rrunner.jpl.nasa.gov (Dan Eldred):
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